Why It's Dumb to Play the Lottery But We Do it Anyway

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The odds of winning the lottery are so bad, that you'd be better off feeding $$$ to your dog.

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The odds of winning the lottery are so bad, that you'd be better off feeding $$$ to your dog.

Why we do it anyway: If one out of every five million times I fed my dog a dollar bill, he vomited up enough cash to buy a sports car, I might try it. What's a dollar in the grand scheme of things?

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