Giving someone who doesn't know how to handle money a lot of just means they'll spend that much more.
Most folks who play the lottery are poor.
Most folks are poor because they don't know how to handle what little money they do have.
Giving someone like this a lot of money all at once is just asking for a train wreck... which is almost always what happens.
Kind of like Joe Louis or his accountant
and, just like a train wreck, one can't help but watch with morbid curiosity...(see: Richard "Oh, I had to pay taxes on that?" Hatch)