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I don’t think they should be banned entirely, but holy moly there should be caps on them! There is no reason whatsoever for them to work this way, with one pot expanding and expanding obscenely, enticing millions of people to throw good money after bad chasing a dream. They should put in rules so that once a pot reaches, say, 50 million or so, keep selling tickets but split the winnings so that more people have chances to win. It’s just obscene and harmful to create these hideously bloated pots (like 50 million isn’t hideously bloated enough!) again and again. It truly makes me ill! There has got to be a better way to manage these things that benefits society a bit more.
Las Vegas influence is just destructive enough when kept to the desert.
Yeah more people would play if the winnings split like that. We’d probably all crowdfund ourselves into being winners. That’s probably why they won’t do it.
I don’t think they should be banned entirely, but holy moly there should be caps on them! There is no reason whatsoever for them to work this way, with one pot expanding and expanding obscenely, enticing millions of people to throw good money after bad chasing a dream. They should put in rules so that once a pot reaches, say, 50 million or so, keep selling tickets but split the winnings so that more people have chances to win. It’s just obscene and harmful to create these hideously bloated pots (like 50 million isn’t hideously bloated enough!) again and again. It truly makes me ill! There has got to be a better way to manage these things that benefits society a bit more.
Las Vegas influence is just destructive enough when kept to the desert.
Agreed. It also used to be $1 per play and it was totally unnecessary to raise it to $2.
I think they're fun. I'd always take the lump sum because i'm old
We only spend a couple dollars here and there, and it's exciting. (Yes i know the chances of winning are slim.) I used to go to Atlantic City and barely gamble.
If people have a gambling problem then no, they shouldn't play. But people have to TRY to be responsible.
People on Social Security I'm sure are hurting deeply.
Heck, I've just looked up my salary when I started my job last decade and converted it to today's dollars. I've gotten two promotions, taken on alot more responsibilty and am basically making slightly less then when I started working at this job 7 years ago.
I think they're fun. I'd always take the lump sum because i'm old
We only spend a couple dollars here and there, and it's exciting. (Yes i know the chances of winning are slim.) I used to go to Atlantic City and barely gamble.
If people have a gambling problem then no, they shouldn't play. But people have to TRY to be responsible.
Some of the money goes to good programs.
Yeah it's not the powerball that's the issue but scratch-offs. You can probably go into any convience store during the day and see a disheveled middle aged guy, with a beat up car dropping the remainder of his bank account on scratch off tickets. Gambling is an addiction for some people and too easy for access.
State sponsored lotteries should be banned. These huge jackpots induce the hoi polloi to spend the rent money and grocery money on lottery tickets, which have essentially 0 chance of winning.
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