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1. In the state lotteries, the tickets are really not worth the price which is paid by the original
2. fair one than the common state lotteries, there would not be the same demand for tickets
3. An annuity, with a right of survivorship, is really worth more than an equal annuity for a separate life ; and, from the confidence which every man naturally has in his own good fortune, the principle upon which is founded the success of all lotteries, such an annuity generally sells for something more than it is worth
4. What’s next? Approve gambling? Lotteries? The Irish Sweepstakes perhaps? Hm? And where will that end, I ask you
5. However, the numbers from many of the biggest lotteries are available
6. In 1892, the state of Louisiana banned lotteries and it would be three quarters of a century before there was another one
7. Can you imagine buying tickets and then having to wait half a year to see if you’ve won? Within time other states got their own lotteries going and you didn’t have to wait forever to find out the results
8. It was a book on, what else, lotteries
9. “Everything You Wanted to Know about Lotteries but Were Afraid to Ask” by Shirley N
10. I learned even more about lotteries from dad and one of his books
11. “It went into the history of lotteries and talked about odds
12. I consider it to be historical fiction, since I have included many statistics and facts about lotteries, including enough information to make the reader feel that he may be better off buying a six-pack of beer than buying a lottery ticket
13. I may never write another work of fiction, but in that novel, deception played a major role, along with statistics and lotteries, which are intricately tied together
14. Unfortunately, people still spend too much money on lotteries despite the fact that the odds are astronomical against them
15. Lotteries typically have astronomical odds against the gambler, with 100 million to 1 odds being common
16. “As many of you already know, Jack has astounded the world by winning two major lotteries in the U
17. “He was able to win two lotteries with the exact same numbers with a payout of almost a half a billion dollars, after taxes, which Mr
18. So far, although the odds have been zero, he has been right in each instance; the two lotteries, and an accurate prediction of the earthquake in California
19. As long as poor people do not realize they are a class… then this nominal success of the exception: the one-in-a-hundred long shot, this belief in random, blind, meaningless luck rather than hard work, this addiction to lotteries, and gambling… this belief in struggling within a system which oppresses them… without tearing down that system to its roots… will keep the billions of poor: Poor forever
20. The addiction to corporation mergers, monopolizing industries and businesses, the addiction to stock swindles, the addiction to instant profit, to lotteries, gambling, corporate takeovers, the insider trading of embezzled stock tips… the addiction to worshipping the greediest and most powerful as heroes… the addiction to belief systems, religions, dogmas, cults, cultures
21. And what has this insane superstition created? The moral-ethical-spiritual plague of lotteries and gambling; exploding all over America and the Capitalistic World
22. Every new fad or wave of the latest ‘humor’… is merely helping people to ignore and accept the latest worsening trends of evil in human society like gambling and homelessness, and lotteries, etc
23. Why is this total bullshit cultural lie of free money buying happiness never challenged or exposed: when most mature adults already know that money does not buy you happiness? Why do Governments around the world now support this continual cultural scam? One measure of public morality and ethics; is the legalization of gambling and lotteries
24. ) Moreover, federal law currently prohibits banks from operating lotteries
25. In fact, here’s a statistic that will blow your mind: the average American household spends $1,000 a year on lotteries
26. According to Bordalo–Gennaioli–Shleifer (2010), decision-makers overweight the likelihood of salient states (where lotteries have extreme, contrasting payoffs), and this can explain both the reflecting shape of the value function and the overweighting of low-probability events
27. Overpaying for lotteries may also partly explain the high prices and low expected returns of equity index options (especially out-of-the-money options) and of the most volatile securities within each asset class
28. The observed high average returns of carry strategies and volatility-selling strategies are also consistent with this story, as are the observed long shot bias in horse race betting and the particular popularity or overpricing of lotteries with the most extreme payoffs
29. In a paper titled “Stocks as lotteries,” Barberis–Huang (2008) develop a model in which investors overvalue (“overweight”) low-probability events (an idea originating from Kahneman and Tversky’s prospect theory) and then overpay for assets with positively skewed, or lottery-type, return distributions
30. They back up their assumption that investors have lottery-like preferences with a variety of empirical evidence, including long-shot bias in betting, popularity of lotteries and other gambling despite negative expected returns, and, increasingly, financial market data (poor long-run performance of small growth stocks and IPOs)
31. As with real lotteries, the odds of success are against the investor who buys a handful of inexpensive, out of the money options, with the expectation that a miracle is at hand
