“But if you don’t have a ticket you chances of winning are zero.”
On the other hand, if you don’t buy lottery tickets your chance of losing money on the lottery is zero, otherwise it is near one hundred percent, something like 99.999999 per cent.
True, but what else can you do for $2 these days?
The amount of entertainment I can get for the cost of a $2 Powerball ticket is far greater than any similar investment, with the added bonus that I have a slight chance of winning a pile of money, and I can earn the $2 in a few minutes doing something useful and productive rather than crapping on other people's fun on FR.