Don’t Trust the Lottery
Posted by Edwin CrozierMar 12
Since Tennessee celebrated having increased lottery ticket sales in February along with increased unemployment, I have only one thing to say.
Quit standing in line for lottery tickets. Spend that time to work on your own successful ideas. You have more of a chance making enough money to provide for your family by working your ideas than you do buying a lottery ticket.
I wonder how many lottery tickets Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Dave Ramsey, or Dan Miller bought in February, or any time for that matter.
2 comments
Comment by ELDV on March 12, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Found an interesting tidbit today on the lottery:
Winner’s Remorse
Winning the lottery leads not to instant gratification, but to almost three years of mental strain and angst. Receiving a windfall of cash causes cognitive dissonance that is alleviated only when the tainted money comes to feel as deserved as earned income.
—”Delay and Deservingness After Winning the Lottery,” University of Zurich.
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More good reasons to avoid the lottery!
ELDV
Comment by Jeff on March 13, 2009 at 1:30 pm
lottery (lot-uh-ree) – A tax on the mathematically challenged