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1. Your buying of lottery tickets is the strongest-possible signal suggesting that you will never be rich, sorry.

Source: the research of Thomas J. Stanley.

2. That climate change hasn't been adequately solved is proof-positive the rich aren't doing their part, or are possibly actively-accelerating environmental, ecological, and civilization extinction and collapse. It's morally-indistinguishable from them coming into every home, waving a gun around, and bragging about how their going to kill this child or the next one. What do you do when someone threatens to kill YOUR descendants? Let them, beg them not to, or shoot them first?

3. All philanthropy should be done in secret or it casts an image of attempting to buy favor.



Oh, no, you mistake me. I make enough money now that when I see the lottery get to half a billion dollars, I can afford without worry, a ticket that’s now an investment.


No, I don't. It's not an "investment" if the expectation is still less than zero. Throwing money away for magical thinking is irrational.




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