[GSlob]

Well, some years ago there was an article in Wall Street Journal about the lottery winners (the article mentioned two people, each of whom won two jackpots of a few million over several months. It also mentioned that every lottery winner was immediately beset with requests for money, frequently rather comical and coming from complete strangers).
IIRC, they also mentioned a father-son team who had spent their lifetime savings of some $10000 on the lottery tickets and all they could later say about it was "at the time it looked like a good investment".

[Chasaway]

The lottery:

A tax on people who are bad at math.