That’s how they get you! Also, I meant the jackpot.

Spoiler alert: you won’t win.

I’m not saying any of this is fair.

Same goes for you. Except the latter part, I’m not that petty.

The issue isn’t pleasure, it’s expectation. Buying a coffee or a movie ticket reliably delivers the thing you’re paying for; a lottery ticket is designed to almost certainly deliver nothing. Calling that “financially inconsequential pleasure” glosses over the fact that the pleasure is mostly manufactured hope, not the product itself.

Enjoyment isn’t immune from criticism just because it’s cheap, and pointing that out doesn’t require living like a monk. You can acknowledge that people do it for fun while still recognizing it as a statistically bad trade-off compared to most other small indulgences

Just because you can afford it, it doesn’t make it a good financial decision to buy a lottery ticket.

You are just filling another scammer’s pockets. At least you get a roof above your head out of one of them.

A rental property?

Yeah but at least you end up with more money to live somewhere affordable…

That is not what I said? Lottery tickets are just throwing money in a fire… Which is counterproductive when saving up for a 1,5 billion home.

Buying lottery tickets to get a house… Maybe this man should get a financial advisor.

Thank you!

Someone got a list of those “other countries” for me please?

Ahh yes of course, because you can’t legally backdoor the mail?

Because one day you might become pope, and it’s all people will talk about?

It’s the corporate way of saying “we’re too lazy/cheap to fix any bug, so please lower your standards.”

Ahh yes sorry, just had my lunch weed break.

Without the picture I would have taken it a completely different way!

It started with billionaires buying up all the media, but was further accelerated by the algorithms.

this isn’t how we want to operate, but it’s hard to perfectly predict growth surges that lead to GPU shortages."

That’s very ironic coming from you guys!

(Who develop prediciton models)