Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?message-squaremessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up1209arrow-down150file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1message-squareIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square147fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCamzing@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agoThat’s more reasonable.
minus-squaremeco03211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down3·1 year agoAlso most lottery winners end up dead or bankrupt within a few years of winning.
minus-squareBilbo Baggins@hobbit.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoThe Google response seems to agree with you, but this Berkeley study says the opposite: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf (Fixed link.)
minus-squaremeco03211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoDunno if it’s bad for mobile or just a bad link but I got a 404.
minus-squareCamzing@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoI guess that’s my point
That’s more reasonable.
Also most lottery winners end up dead or bankrupt within a few years of winning.
The Google response seems to agree with you, but this Berkeley study says the opposite:
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf
(Fixed link.)
Dunno if it’s bad for mobile or just a bad link but I got a 404.
I guess that’s my point