Playing the lottery does not raise you chance of winning by more than a minuscule amount.
Still, some people do win the lottery.
The issue then is your definition of minuscule, and your timeframe allowance for playing enough lotteries.
They win the lottery because the odds not exceed the upper probability limits of possibility- not even close-
with the lottery- you have a chance, with evolution, there is no chance-
I have a 100% winning street with lottery tickets. I never buy them so I win $2 every time I go into a convenience store and don’t buy one.
Classification error.
This isn’t a “lottery” it’s mathematical futility.
Like a “lottery” with 1e50 tickets and the winner gets a Pepsi.
Yeah, one person will “win,” but the “jackpot” is so on-par with the cost of their ticket that it’s a wash, at best.
Characterizing this as a “lottery” is to put it entirely in the wrong class of thing; to transplant it from the realm of the impossibility of “winning” next to nothing into the realm of a measurable statistical possibility of REALLY winning a life-transforming payout.