Current Events > I just want someone to win the Mega Millions already.

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I am so fucking sick of these idiots who can't afford to be blowing their money on the lottery coming and and wasting hundreds of dollars on what is essentially a tax on stupidity. Especially because 90% of the people playing have never played before and have no idea how it even fucking works. I could be completely ripping them off and they would have no clue (I'm not, for the record, but I easily could be).

Also, I genuinely feel sorry for whoever does win it. Their life is basically over. I wish I could find the study again, but apparently people who win over $10 million in a lottery jackpot have about a 50% chance of being dead, destitute, or in prison within 10 years. It brings so many problems that people just don't expect and plan for that it completely ruins their lives and tears families apart.
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Yeah, I'd take the 50% chance on all that to get that money.

Aristoph posted...

I could be completely ripping them off

How can you do that? Take their money and sell them fake tickets somehow?
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CoolMaskGuy posted...

Yeah, I'd take the 50% chance on all that to get that money.

It's not just 50% dead and 50% living the high life. Of the half that were not dead/destitute/detained, most of them just ended up blowing their money and going back to a relatively normal life, working a normal job and living paycheck to paycheck like they used to.

Those odds are shit, imo.
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Unbreakable posted...

Aristoph posted...

I could be completely ripping them off

How can you do that? Take their money and sell them fake tickets somehow?

Giving them tickets to a different lottery and most of them wouldn't know the difference. Telling them it costs more per play than it actually does (like charging them for the Megaplier without actually giving them the Megaplier on the ticket). Stuff like that.

It's pretty easy when the customer is dumb as bricks and has no idea what they're doing.
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