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Originally Posted by Yoda
Nice try, I know you're way too smart/numerate to play the lottery.
You would think, but sometimes when it gets to be an outrageous sum, I purchase a single ticket, thinking that maybe I really can get struck my lightning. Alas, the lottery is just extra taxes for people that can't do math.
I think also even after you get it turned in and all settled. I wouldn;t even know where to start with a sum like that. It's not like you just toss it in the bank and get back to hanging out. You would need a team of lawyers and finance people just to deal with it, and not to mention, if your identity was revealed to the world, you would be immediately besieged by a legion of long lost relatives, scam artists, and criminals bent of separating you from some or all of the funds. Big money, big problems.
Yeah, I'd go straight to a bank, open a deposit box, sign it while in the safe room, and then take a picture/video of myself putting it in the box.
Yeah, I always think that, about the lottery: how horrifying it would be up until the moment you were able to turn it in.
What should be put to bed is the idea that that was a truly answerable question to begin with.
And I'd only accept a conclusion based on one data point if I had any faith that the conclusion would be reversed had it gone the other way, which is obviously wouldn't have.
And I'd only accept a conclusion based on one data point if I had any faith that the conclusion would be reversed had it gone the other way, which is obviously wouldn't have.