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The lottery makes an enormous amount of income even accounting for the payoff. If you can't point to winners, then there would not be trust in the lottery. And because the odds of winning are so low, they simply don't need to make up additional fake winners because the handful that do succeed is enough. And finally, it's not like 1000 people can hit a billion in a row and bankrupt the government. The jackpot increases based on the amount people have paid into the pot.