The lottery is now voluntary.
I don't see why the lottery (which is the only gambling that has any measurable positive impact on society) deserves to be singled out. Or is it that the positive impact that makes it a tax, instead of just a way of [company k] making profits.
There's plenty of poor people that know there is better stuff to spend you money on.
You can't spend the time dreaming you'll win it, if you don't buy a ticket.
I still don't buy it, but I've stopped being so judgemental on people who buy them.
> You can't spend the time dreaming you'll win it, if you don't buy a ticket.
I think this statement is more key to a lot of things than people realize. You can never be lucky if you don't take chances. People often like to defend gambles they take in life by using expected returns/risks as a premise that they are making an "informed risk". At the end of the day, however, buying stocks, creating a business, starting a new job, etc, are all gambles.