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arcanus on April 5, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: The economics of American lotteries

I'm skeptical those numbers work out. Winning any amount of $ in a lottery is vanishingly small odds.

Even if true, that would imply ANY probability of a comfortable lifestyle is ~0.

readyman on April 5, 2024 [–]

>Even if true, that would imply ANY probability of a comfortable lifestyle is ~0.

That is definitely the case, and it's precisely the point that parent was making.

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