VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agoWhat is something that only exists because people are stupid?message-squaremessage-square198fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down15
arrow-up1140arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something that only exists because people are stupid?VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agomessage-square198fedilink
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down3·11 days agoLotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
minus-squareDigDoug@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down2·11 days agoLotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-210 days agoI’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it. …which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…
minus-squareNollij@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoYou have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.
Lotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
Lotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
I’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it.
…which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…
You have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.