Sorry to be a downer but the lottery is for people who are not good at math.
Then I guess these people are good at math.
Tell that to Tom and Kathleen Morris.
did you mean,
the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math .
I'm not sure what that means. But, my guess is that with $125 Million in the bank a math deficiency can be over come.
If you don’t play, your chance of winning is 0. Even losing $1 once a year gives you an infinitely greater chance than 0.
The lottery and some games in Vegas, etc are your best chance of making $100+ million in one day with little investment and no work. You can’t depend on winning something like this but a small chance of something amazing is psychologically far better than 0. Especially when having that chance requires almost no effort.
Just like most guys know they won’t be dating a supermodel, but only the ones that try actually do.
I’m a glass-half-empty nuke engineer and pretty good at math. I don’t play but sometimes think I should, just for the psychological value.