More like a tax on hope… A lot of those people playing the lottery actually are making a rational decision, because an astronomically slim chance is still better than no chance, which is exactly what they’ve got otherwise. Poverty is designed to be inescapable.
Dunc@#1:
Yeah. What’s depressing is that the money some people will drop in a night of gambling could actually be put to good use. But the victims of that end of society don’t get taught what they need to know to use those tools; they’re kept helpless.
More like a tax on hope… A lot of those people playing the lottery actually are making a rational decision, because an astronomically slim chance is still better than no chance, which is exactly what they’ve got otherwise. Poverty is designed to be inescapable.
Dunc@#1:
Yeah. What’s depressing is that the money some people will drop in a night of gambling could actually be put to good use. But the victims of that end of society don’t get taught what they need to know to use those tools; they’re kept helpless.