Alternatively, you have increased your chances of not winning from
99.999999430885402993688473590032% to 99.999994308854029936884735900322%
This represents an improvement of
.00000512203166455910240060177%
(math may be a little off but you get the point).
If I lose $20 a year for the rest of my life, it will not affect me at all. But if I win something like this even once, it would be life changing for me and everyone close to me.
The odds of winning lottery are probably greater than the odds of starting your own business from nothing and ending up with $10 million+ spendable cash. I know people that lost everything including their homes by investing in what they thought was a guaranteed business idea. There are no guarantees and the smallest unexpected thing can bankrupt you, even if you have a brilliant idea and work hard 24/7.
But very soon, a real person among us is guaranteed to be wealthier than they ever imagined by simply having wagered as little as $1. Those among us that didn’t play are guaranteed to get absolutely nothing.