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Once I realized the Lottery are a government entity and a source of income for State Governments, that's when I knew it was a scam
The lottery is a scam
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But it tells you the odds on the ticket itself. How can anybody with basic, elementary math skills be hopeful about a 1/10000000 chance?
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See my previous reply. Logic and reason have nothing to do with emotion and hope, there are levels to the scam:
The lottery is a scam
Most of the lottery goods go to business and administration cost when you talk about teachers and you talk about education for children. 30 percent. The other 70 percent goes to state tax. It a way to tax poor people without them knowing they tax them. It's business sell poor people hope when...
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I saw your post but my LOGIC still stands…See my previous reply. Logic and reason have nothing to do with emotion and hope, there are levels to the scam:
The lottery is a scam
Most of the lottery goods go to business and administration cost when you talk about teachers and you talk about education for children. 30 percent. The other 70 percent goes to state tax. It a way to tax poor people without them knowing they tax them. It's business sell poor people hope when...
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Nothin worse than somebody holdin up the line, readin off #s to the cashier when the sign clearly says you need to fill out a slip if you are playing more than 3 #s
Nothing you saying makes it a scam you are overlooking something very simple... the definition of the word. this isn't a scam. you can call it exploitative or whatever else.
people play knowing their odds of winning.
AGAIN life will always be precarious for those who are not disciplined, educated. If it's not this one bad habit it's another. You can't attack everything someone could blow their money on or prevent them from accessing all those vices. you can however educate people to make better decisions. for some it's gambling, others drinking, designer wear, women... habits. habits define people. you learn early to make better decisions because you will be leveraging your decision making skills for the rest of your life. don't learn and you are FOOD. just a fool with money soon to be parted from it.
this is life, if it was a scam it wouldn't be legal. it's gambling. keep shyt practical not philosophical.
I empathize when warranted. My intuition tells me to read about what I get myself into (the lottery)
It’s a tax on the poor. Not for me regularly. In the past I did drop $2 or so every now and then when it got to like 700 million. For perspective I didn’t play lotto since at least 2019. Most I ever spent per year was maybe $10.
NOT A SCAM
words have meaning
you dude on here really love taking the helpless route
gambling is a choice. gambling on the lottery comes with knowledge of the odds... where is the scam? describe what the scam is or at minimum define a scam.
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Nothing you saying makes it a scam you are overlooking something very simple... the definition of the word. this isn't a scam. you can call it exploitative or whatever else.
people play knowing their odds of winning.
AGAIN life will always be precarious for those who are not disciplined, educated. If it's not this one bad habit it's another. You can't attack everything someone could blow their money on or prevent them from accessing all those vices. you can however educate people to make better decisions. for some it's gambling, others drinking, designer wear, women... habits. habits define people. you learn early to make better decisions because you will be leveraging your decision making skills for the rest of your life. don't learn and you are FOOD. just a fool with money soon to be parted from it.
this is life, if it was a scam it wouldn't be legal. it's gambling. keep shyt practical not philosophical.
Maybe I have a different view of poverty and those trapped in it along with a different insight into the nature of the system that sees them as a resource to exploited.
Really all there is to it. Same reasons the places you buy them tickets are liquor stores and how they proliferate in certain demographics. Its deeper than statistics.
you getting elaborate for no reason. nothing you are talking about broadly makes gambling on a lottery with stated odds a scam...
yes in life exploitation is constant. if you were in nature you would be food if you refused to keep your guard up. why expect otherwise in society?
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Complexion
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Have you considered you may be overly simplifying? Read back what I said again if you wish and you'll see we're talking of two different images painted on the same canvas. Such is the beauty of art along with the subjective nature of consciousness. For assistance:
scam
[ skam ]noun
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
verb (used with object), scammed, scam·ming.
to cheat or defraud with a scam.
They are hope dealers and that is what they steal from those that are already hopeless due to their lack of financial stability and social degradation they dwell in.
Its deeper than maths.