Redpill me on the lottery

Redpill me on the lottery

If Sup Forums has taught me anything its that the jews are behind it

The state taxes gamblers to help cover fiscal mismanagement.

Its how the state jew you out of your retirement money.

It's highly unlikely you'll ever win it, but hey if you ever got super lucky you'd be set for life so there are worse things to spend 20 bucks on

You pick numbers and hope multiple of your numbers are drawn. The probability of winning is low, and are listed on the website of the lottery company.

It's a tax on stupidity.

A tax on retards

tax for the poor and desperate.

Red pill yourself on the boards rules.

Typically the state taxes the fuck out of your windfall earnings and you wind up taking a yearly pittance just to have it taxed less. And all the while the value of the currency deflates, so the Jew bankers also get to tax your winnings.

So it's like a triple-tax in that regard.

You're better off using that money in Vegas. I spent $200 last time I went, and came back with $500 total. SUCK IT BITCHES.

They always win : the prize is always lesser than the money people wasted on these tickets. The more people will buy tickets, the more the prize will be

The lottery is a tax on the stupid.

It's nicknamed "the poor man's tax" for a reason.

It's a scam.

>buying the paper jew

My first high school real job I pulled in $428 in my first weekly paycheck having fun and learning cool shit. I promptly used that to buy the super-ultra-dank latest Plextor 3X CD-ROM drive along with an extra caddy. Shit was so cash. Didn't even have to pay for travel.

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Well here all the winnings are pre-taxed so you get all of the sum and you don't need to pay any-taxes on it.


One of my relatives won a Big sum of money here with it also so i know it's not a scam.

A great way to gauge the worthiness of a potential lifemate.
Totally non-confrontational, can be brought up seemingly innocently.
Any trait tied to being suceptible to be a recurrent lottery player is also tied to defective behavioural tendencies, superb potential red flag when you have a doubt.

Great thing, great thing.

Play for fun, not to win. Invest if you want to make money

oh wait, you burgers also have some private lotteries, correct?

That's even worse, it's like a state sanctioned ponzie scheme that preys on people who don't usually get an invitation to regular ponzie schemes...

You have almost no chance of winning.

Playing the lottery is essentially a coping mechanism for a dull/miserable life. You're buying the ability to imagine that you won't be stuck in the same shit job forever.

I've always been a firm believer that all gambling is stupid.

The sole point of gambling is knowing that the majority of people have to lose for a few to win; more often than now you'll be one of the losers to fund the winner's pot.

Everybody who've I've met who gambles has always lost more than won; even when they win big one night they can't do something smart and just keep it, no they have to go and lose it all the next night

Sometimes we let the abo-americans run lotteries since they have special laws. Also sometimes there are special laws where it's OK to gamble if you're on the water, so they make big casino boats.

How Jewish can you get? But hey, fuck year America!

I used to sell lotto tickets and cigarettes at a corner store. Most people just buy one ticket a week, so about $2. I can see how if you have a really shitty, hopeless life, that little bit of chance to win can make it seem worth it, and $2 isn't really a big deal.

Only a small percentage are degenerates and spend hundreds a week. It's like any type of gambling, really.

I don't play it myself, though.

>20 bucks on

Statistically just one ticket, or $2, is enough.

Which reminds me, the biggest degenerates were scratch ticket players, and guys who bet on sports.

People falsely believe that once the jackpot value exceeds the number of possible outcomes, that the value of a ticket exceeds the purchase price.

The reality is that there is no point in time where your ticket is worth more than the estimated value. This is because the estimated value of the ticket decreases as more people play the lottery. The higher the jackpot, the higher the likelihood that the pot will be split.

Through the use of statistics (particularly binomial distribution), you can actually estimate the probability of a how many ways the pot will be split.

Playing the lottery is ALWAYS a waste of money. And it will always go towards funding people that take excessive joy in fucking you over. Go by burger or something instead; at least when you pay for that, you have a 100% chance of winning a burger.

Basically this.

No bad habits. No sodas, No tobacco products, etc.

Figure what the hell, I can drop 10 bucks on false hope when the jackpot gets over 100 million.

$2 a week is nothing if that's really your escapism. No worse than buying a tabloid at the checkout isle or whatever your miserable pleasure is, and basically no self-harm compared to like a drug habit or something.

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Remember, the only way to win is to not play.

>and $2 isn't really a big deal.
It is when it goes towards people that are trying to fuck you over.

>No worse than buying a tabloid at the checkout isle
You are the worst kind of person.

I played the powerball lotto twice a week for a full year and I won exactly $5. I told myself it was an experiment, so I maintained record of my weekly purchase, ytd purchase, and winnings. After three months I knew I should stop, but I resigned myself to complete the year. At least they money went to parks or something, right?

A tax on the stupid, going towards people I hate.

I'd rather see idiots keep their money than see it go to people that want to fuck me over.

It's funded by losers. Literally.

I don't buy them. But I don't blame old mothers I wouldn't want to fuck if they want to buy one during weekly shopping any more than I blame women for liking to read Stephen King novels once in a while.

State monopoly on gambling. They give you unbelievably shitty odds.

I think the bigger issue is the kind of person who plays. I worked at a grocery store for a while, and we did have the occasional regular person just throwing a few dollars at a jackpot but the routine customers were people that were paying for soda and ice cream with food stamps. Just absolute shit bags.

Idiot tax for false hope

Can confirm, current corner store owner.

Most people buy between 1-5 lotto tickets @ $1/$2 per ticket

The cunts are the people who come in 15 times a night to buy scratchers, and demand you tell them the numbers on the rolls. Like it fucking matters.

>But I don't blame old mothers I wouldn't want to fuck if they want to buy one during weekly shopping any more than I blame women for liking to read Stephen King novels once in a while.
You probably should.

Stephen King is a disgusting creature and so are the people that pay him.

Here in the fullest country on earth, our lotto winnings aren't taxed at all.

Yeah. There's the kind of a person who tries to stay within a budget of I just like gambling so I'm going to go out and do it as a treat and keep it in line, and maybe he kicks himself for going a little overboard.

And then there's the guy who drags himself out the next morning stone broke not knowing how to save his life.

Gambling is degeneracy. Don't do it.

Well yeah I think Stephen King is crap, since I enjoyed a number of his books as a youth. But if it's kept down to a smolder then you have to allow people some indulgence in their shit tastes once in a while.

Yeah,but you only win AUS funbux and that buys, what, 3 candy bars?

3 or 4

You can win a few times if you let your kids participate in a pizza party sacrifice, you won't see em again, like Sandy Hook, but you will make millions not to mention setting up a go find me for muh losses and sadness

People who know mathematics make money from those who don't.

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Think I was bullshitting?

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I'm originally from Vegas. I lived there for 12 years and it taught me a few things.
I'll just breakdown gambling to you first.

Gambling is a tax on the small minority of people who are gullible yet wealthy. While people of good judgement play the stock market. People of poor judgement usually gamble.
This niche population coupled with an addictive entertaining environment makes for a very profitable market.
While many will never win enough to offset their spending they still continue to invest anyway for entertainment value. The same kind of behavior can be seen in your average card player with high investment requirements, random success outcome and no long term investment opportunity.
Dealers have plants and slots are rigged. My father was a slot tech at the Desert Inn before they knocked it down and a surveillance tech at the Riviera. Take your kid to work day was great because I got to see the gullible lose their money. It taught me that gambling was about making profit above all else.

Onto the lottery.
One of the biggest marketing gimmicks of all time has been a "game" style investment required give back program. If you've ever played the McDonald's Monopoly you've been had. To break this down you give money to an entity that prints a bunch of pieces of paper with numbers on them. After you invest you hope that the entity gives you back something for your investment even though the majority of those investments won't pan out unless you buy them in a large quantity. The entity that produces these tickets knows exactly which one will win and plants it in a location that has a low purchase history of lottery tickets.
>Ever notice how lottery winners are from who the fuck cares nowhere?
Same thing is done with the monopoly game. It reduces the chances that someone will win it because it's in a place no one would think would purchase it.
The end goal of these tickets is for them to dodge someone getting the winning ticket long enough to expire.

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This, user, is what we refer to as an anecdote.

Notice how it is not representative of a trend, but rather an isolated incident.

>If you've ever played the McDonald's Monopoly you've been had.
Like hell I have.

I've won a free meal literally every time I've ever played the McDonald's lottery. And that's before I even peel the stickers off the fries.

Thought I had more pics but I guess I deleted them.
>isolated incident
>won a total of 8 times for a total of $500
I must be really really lucky then huh?

TELL ME THE FUCKING

NUMBERS

REEE

You purchased something then got something of lesser value back.
Still feel good about it?
>Large fry: about $3
>McDouble: $1

Your average winning off of a monopoly piece is something you can get off the dollar menu. That's why small fries don't get the pieces. Even a medium fry is about 2.34 and that still is an offset.

>I must be really really lucky then huh?
Yes. That is a statistically accurate statement.

I don't go to casinos or do sports betting. but I'll buy one ticket for the provincial lottery. AND only ever one ticket.

the way i see it the change in odds from one ticket to 2 is neglible but the change from 0 tickets to 1 is astronomical.

If i'm going to be lucky i might as well be very lucky. And if I don't play I don't have a horse in the race. And its cheaper than buying a beer at a restaurant.

it's a lie. You win you and never get paid. All a conspiracy to take your money

>Large fry
>3x more than a small fry
Where are you getting these numbers?

Serious question.

>The entity that produces these tickets knows exactly which one will win

Are you retarded? The numbers are drawn randomly on a certain day. How can you plant a winning ticket, when you don't know which one will win until after the draw.

The reason lottery winners are often from nowhere is because every person that plays has roughly an equal probability of winning. Why would you expect mostly people from big cities to win? Even if one store sells 300,000 tickets, and another sells 300, each individual ticket has the same probability of being a winner.

>but the change from 0 tickets to 1 is astronomical.
The phrase you're looking for is "insignificamt".

And I mean that in the most literal, scientific sense.

jewish scam

Meh. A 0.000001% chance of being able to spend the rest of my life in a mansion shitposting on the internet is better than 0%

The difference is quite literally and scientifically insignificant.

In fact, the loss of that dollar compared to your estimated worth over the course of your entire life is more significant than the chances of you winning

> Could have got four numbers on the EuroMillions recently if I didn't keep on changing them
Fortunately I never had all the numbers but if I had got all of them on a previous ticket for a draw where I didn't have them on...would be so depressing.

They'd just send a UN code enforcer to say you have a blade of grass 1" too tall so you're fined $10M/day until you've cut it back down. But you'd only get the notification in the mail a month later, and you'd have to spend 6 months in litigation and 3 appeals to clear your name in court.

>insignificamt

Nice attempt at looking smart. Maybe next time you'll actually spell check your answer.

And notice how I didn't say the odds were astronomical. I said the change in the odds go from 0 to 1 in however million/billion it takes. Which is the largest increase in the odds that buying tickets will take.

I don't make my future hopes depend on the lottery. But I'm not stupid enough to believe that a hundred bucks a year is going to make or break my future.

We can't all be winners.
I love you.

>your expected return is negative
Isn't this highschool math stuff?

I wouldnt even be happy if I won 100 Million right now, my life would still suck because I hate myself

It's a scam to swindle the money of the poor. Private lotteries are bad, the state sanctioned monopolies we have here are down right disgusting because the state is intentionally fucking over the public for shekels .

>live super comfortably and with a surplus of money, mostly because I don't have vices or spend money on anything I don't really need for the most part
>spend an absurdly small amount of money a week on a ticket, it virtually making no difference at all in the grand scheme of things
>get a little rush once a week, it's a nice feel. "What if I win"
>get laughed at by friends who spend x100 a week on alcohol and cigars as me for 'wasting money'

I don't even care that it's retardedly hard to win, I just get that little rush of 'what if' at the end of every week, senpai.

To be honest I'm not aiming for the jackpot, I just a good amount of cash (aka thousands) just so I can go learn how to drive and get on the road which would massively help with job prospects.

Right now I'm fucked and I'm just going to forget what I've learned all because I can't fucking get anywhere (IT by the way). Let down all the fucking time.

Too bad KEK cant bless our lotto numbers :[

>45,000,000/1 odds of winning
>Jackpot: £2m
>Unironically falling for the "randomized" Jew

seems like the guaranteed Jew to me

Basically what everybody is saying that the lottery is rigged against you.

>And notice how I didn't say the odds were astronomical. I said the change in the odds go from 0 to 1 in however million/billion it takes. Which is the largest increase in the odds that buying tickets will take.
That is idiot.
It's not even astronomical, it's infinite, undefined, or some other retarded bullshit because you're literally dividing by 0.

Negative EV, so its basically a stupidity tax

The only way to win is to be the (((guy))) running it

its a class c felony to host a poker game taking no rake yet you can dump all your dollars into lottery and scratchers and as long as the money goes to the state they dont care about yoru gambling problem

I'm gonna help you.
These are the winning numbers for the powerball.
20-24-36-39-52 powerball 10

These are the mega millions winner numbers.
3-8-12-17-23 megamillion bonus ball 15

Thank me with a million pls

Well, thats funny because I am well off, my parents basically sponsor my autism, I am 24 and drive a nice mercedes, got Hunting equipment for 20k and a lot of stuff and sitll I am not happy at all and feel like a worthless peace of shit.

And yes I know it is because I dont work and dont have a purpose in life.

I am depressive btw

Better of playing stock or memcoin

You put 100% of your money in, you get 60% back on average (depending on the system, 60% return is required by legislation here in Germany for all kinds of gambling). And then, depending on your legislation, you also pay some tax on what you get back. So, the only way to win is not to play.

Good Germans pay extra taxes when they can >:(

For the glorious reward of being rewarded for their duty!

If quads I'll be a millionaire this wknd

If every american citizen plays the lottery, you have a 1 in 350 million chance of winning. Spend 3 dollars max per lottery, but don't expect to win.

It's basically a stupidity tax. It also gives the plebs a false sense of hope.

Nothing to redpill you on. You pay to play a game with astronomical odds against you, but if you win, the riches are equally astronomical.

That said, most lottery winners wind up in debt within 5 years. It's a shit ton of money, but human desires are bottomless, and weak/stupid people (the kind who play this game) aren't smart enough to budget, as they assume they will just be rich forever.

Some people believe in luck counterbalance. That if you start off with shit luck never at the right point to the right time that means you will win a lot later or that you have been cursed.