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:wins 10 dollars
*OH YEAH I WON!*
Jouse Martinez - I actually went into a bookies with my friend and he went in with 20 and came out with 560.... I was extremely jealous but he brought everybody's drinks so I don't care.
@@four-twenty4205 i have known many people who have played thousands in a year and have won maybe 10% of it back. i don't like lotteries and don't play them !
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@@four-twenty4205 my dad won 6000$ with a 2$ lottery ticket. And later in the month won 1.5k$ i mean its not that much but its still something.
@@gigasigma8373 stonks.
This actor is awesome! He really nails the grinning corporate asshole character.
1ucasvb That's Roger
Corporate? You do realize, lottery is a government operation...
Well... isn't the government entirely ran by corporations nowadays?
Walter Clark not quite- a lot of states sell the rights to operate the lottery to a corporation for revenues, royalties or lump sums...
So you would blame the hired gun? But who is responsible for government owned gambling? If you were against the draft would you hold responsible for that wrong thing... the company that made the lottery machine that picked the draft number?
Money may not buy me happiness but it sure makes my misery more bearable.
"whoever said money doesn't solve your problems must not have had enough money to solve them" - Ariana Grande
For some people, money may not buy happiness.
However, the vast majority of the depression and anxiety I feel is caused by financial related problems.
If I won the lottery, these problems would cease existing, therefore greatly increasing how happy I am.
@@spencer7189 until you lose every friend and family member that suddenly finds a weakness to greed and mooches you into a cardboard box without you realizing you gave it away. They may even ironically have used some of your millions to buy more lottery tickets.
@@Beer-can_full_of_toes yeah family and friends will try to mooch if you just have a good career. So if I hit the lottery the friends and family were already lost with the "can I borrow a dollar" bs. And it doesn't matter how much money you have, if you can't say no to friends and family you will be broke as well in time. Never fails ✌
@@eleminoupi5670 fair enough lol
"For the purposes of my industry, probability works however you think it does!" 😂😂😂 brilliant!
"I was one number off!" is just another type of gambler's fallacy. The numbers are only nominal. So if you pick the number 4 and then 5 is drawn, that actually doesn't mean you were any closer to a match. Each number just comes down to a binary question of whether it's a match or not.
Thomas Jefferson said, "Lotteries are a way to collect taxes from people who can't do math".
@Jere Kärnä r/woooosh
They aren't the only target, also drug addicts and poor people who have impulse control problems
@Jere Kärnä Lotteries were a part of British settlements in American from the very beginning. In 1612, the Virginia Company of London held a lottery to fund ships bound for the JamestownColony. The prize was 4,000 crowns, a good amount of money in those days. ... Lotteries paid for public buildings, roads and canals.
George Washington was the first purchaser of a lottery ticket to help fund the American Revolution.
@@stervenmealey1097 I guess poor people should have their money in a trust so that we smarter people can be sure they won't blow it.
I mean they must be stupid, right?
So you’re telling me there’s a chance.
Lloyd! lloyd! you can't triple stamp a double stamp!!!
😂😂😂 good one
That depends on your definition of "chance."
If the lottery was honest, they'd tell us that there are no jackpot winners and that they are only occasionally staged to keep the slaves believing in it.
@@sanitycheck2375: Actually, I think the winners are real, as so often attested by their subsequent lives as winners of (part of) a large sum of money who had no idea of what it would entail. Overall, I would call the results tragicomic.
that's exactly the conversation i had with my mother multiple times.
"why don't you stop playing this stupid gamble, the chance of winning a decent amount of money is barely existent"
"yes but do you remember that i won $200 5 years ago?"
"and how much have you spent over the years?"
*silence*
though i think most people somehow know they will never win, it's just that feeling you pay for, that little subconscious thrill you'll get for a few days or weeks.
Yep. It's damn expensive paying for that little rush...that pang of hope. Truly addictive behavior.
I've also had that conversation multiple times w multiple people.
They don't want to hear it. They don't want to comprehend it. They don't allow themselves to understand & absorb it.
I've even said to some, "Put the money you'd spend in a jar until the end of the year: guaranteed win." That doesn't tend to go over well.
"The odds of winning the lottery are so low that they're ILLEGAL to be that low in Vegas."
*blank look....then denial.
Those little "wins" they or their friends/relatives/whoever get...that's what keeps the deception working.
Another reason our educational system doesn't improve: The government concerned they may lose income.
They remember the time they won $500 and forget the 1265 times they spent $5
It is a dream solution out of a bad situation
A escapism mechanism.
I buy a 3dollar lottery ticket once every 4 months and wait 2 months to scratch it. I know I wont win, but as long as I dont scratch it, I could be THE winner!
@@jeffreybankers3988 It's more than just disappointment though. It's a sneaky, cruel form of tax twisted into an addictive game. That's so sinister and cruel. They knew exactly what they were doing.
your mom could just pickup a hobby that makes her feel just the same as playing the lottery except she will enjoy it more.
Seeing stuff like this makes me glad that my parents raised me on the belief that the lottery is a scam.
Any form of gambling that relies ENTIRELY of random chance is a scam. Is there a chance at winning? Yes. But like the video said you're more likely to get murdered than actually win.
It is a scam.
It’s not a scam. People just don’t understand the concept. Anyone whom you ask they will tell you they will be a,winner. Well guess what… only one of these people can be a winner. So that clearly shows how delusional people are, and how they don’t understand the concept and therefore once they are not winning they call it a scam.
not just a belief though
Well that's not a belief
I used to work at a gas station in a poor neighborhood. It was really sad when customers would spend a couple hundred bucks on lotto tickets and then complain about their financial issues.
Did an old guy ever walk up to you and say 69 69 69 .............
@@Randy-ry9ss Surprisingly, no. But, there was an old guy that frequently made sexually suggestive remarks to me and the rest of the women employees.
@@lanerose5243 did you mace him?
@@Randy-ry9ss Against corporate policy lol
Ironically, that's money they could easily use to get out of their crappy situation.
i bought a $5.00 ticket 27 years ago and lost , still remember the crappy feeling of knowing i could have had a cold 6 pack of beer
Lmao!!!!
So basically you would've changed a crapy choice by even a crappier alternative?! So smart.....
@@amineamraoui4397 6 beers isn't even enough to get you tipsy. Was your mom a nun?
Beer ??? Spend that money on Crack !
Same thing, either way the money would have been pissed away.
The only person who actually "wins the lottery" is the organizer.
And the government
Or the person that can "beat" the algorithm. Like counting cards at a casino
lol this reminds me to the matrix
i'm code lyoko fan too,from old days
@@lanmichaelmix2818 Yeh the old days, old as this acc I'm using😂
I worked with a guy that won 10 grand and immediately developed a gambling addiction trying to win big again. He'd spend hundreds on lottery tickets every payday. Sure sometimes he would win again, but he'd immediately blow it buying more tickets. He'd have been better off if he never won in the first place.
I stopped at a gas station and there were slot machines in it, there were like 6 black guys all sitting at them... it clearly looked like they hang out there every evening... I'm thinking like, we are in the middle of nowhere people... No one else uses these machines... this means all the money in those machines is coming from them themselves... you really just cannot fix stupid, obviously this gas station is making money off these blacks guys and not the other way around...
"It's called the American dream ....because you have to be asleep... to believe it". G Carlin
Either that or because it's only a dream and will never actually come true. Americans have a worse chance at achieving the American dream than many other western countries...
@Sovereign I miss him. I hope hes in a peril of forever darkness cause it's better than shit we are in right now.
All glad he's gone!
@@apexcrypto01 :D oke mate
"You can buy shit you don't need with money you don't have."
The lottery, a tax on people who don't understand math.
Dave Ramsey has entered the chat:
that s why is targeted to poor people
I think that is what he said. Poor , uneducated ect. Thanks
Odds are 185,000,000 to 1? Thats a BAJILLION dollars for me!
to be a good gambler use math
He forgot the most important line ever; “you can’t win if you don’t play”…
Wrong! The most important line:"You will not be robbed, when you do not offer yourself up to be robbed!"
Every time I hear this, I remind myself: "I can't lose if I don't play".
@@WythaneyeThus winning if you don't play.
But you can’t win if you do play either.
As someone put it:"the only winning move is not to play"
It would have been funny mentioning having to mention something like: “
“Even if you get the money, you may be ostracized by your family to giving away your money to them, starting a familiar divide until you are guilt tripped into doing so or just outright abandon them!”
1- lock it away in an investment
2- help your family with the dividends
3- you can help everyone for the rest of your life
@@sergiowinter5383 4 never tell your family you won but help them
Whoever says money can't buy happiness never got bailed out of jail!!
LOL
SOAP AND WATER .20 years ago. Still got to go to the hearing tho
@@jeremylister704 yeah but if you have a lot of money you can make the case go away
SOAP AND WATER .20 years ago. Tru
what u are calling "money" isnt money ! hahaha u think ur so smart !
Money doesn't make you happy, but the lack of money sure can make life miserable.
@C W yuck... What's a life if you can't treat yourself to something nice? I agree most of the time you should buy needs and not wants, but sometimes you just have to get that little something!
Money can open certain doors that lead to happiness. People are just severely uneducated/uncreative on 'how' they should be using their money instead of lamenting on not having enough.
C W *wow you just solved worldwide poverty*
I handout money to people all the time, trust me, it makes them happy.
C W what if I don't make enough money to afford rent or don't have a jop
Some 15 years ago I sat with my Mom to show her the math on how much she had spent in daily packs of cigarrettes, every-other-day bottles of Coca Cola, and weekly lottery tickets, from when she started working at age 18 up until that conversation (aroung 45 y/o). I said "you could have already bought at least a low-income house if you had saved this money instead of squandering it on useless things". Aaaand I almost got slapped.
truth hurts.
@@DonLee1980 😥
Same she almost kicked me out the house. She’s still wasting her money to this day lol.
@@amandac9894hey cutie you got Snapchat
It is a stupid old story. The question is mr non smoker, non lotto player and no. Coka cola drinker. Where is the house you bought from money you saved by non doing what you claim your mom did?
A voluntary tax on people who are no good at math...
Perfectly stated
If you don't play, you don't win.
@@kevinjones2041 if you do play, you also don't win, but you will have more money.
@@kevinjones2041 If you don't play, you don't lose.
@@kevinjones2041Correct. Now, ask yourself this: how much money have you won via the lottery, and how much of your money has the lottery consumed?
dumbest thing is, people know this, and still buy them..
why do people care so much, its not your money, fuck off.
It's a psichological addiction. Very easy to pick up. It's like a thought you can never completely leave but socially accepted.
@@TheZombieslayer2002 Actually, by not being addicted and spending your money in smarter and more useful ways, you'd be a better participant in economy, so, yes, it kinda affects me and my money.
@@ljubboyt Still isn't your money mate
@@krettzy3540 you have no morality it seems.
"The government is the profiter of your hopeless dreams" --- wow!
Yusuf Ahmed favorite sentence of the video
And that's why it stays legal
The Mafia used to run illegal gambling. The government said it was a "vice" and had laws to try to put them out of business. That didn't work so they made it legal. Now the government is the Mafia.
@@joevignolor4u949 100% accurate
@@joevignolor4u949 this very very sad ...and true.
“Just plop your paycheck into a shredder! It’ll have the same effect”
Absolutely 💯
I wish this weren't true, but I've seen it first hand.
The sad part is that even knowing all of this, people still pay out and hope for it.
Desperation and lack of mathematical literacy are big contributers I suppose.
i mean.. i'm poor, what you expect me to do?
Saving those dollars for something you actually wants? Considering a ticket a day or even 2,3 (if you buy it daily) or any amount of money spend on tickets are considered donation to the lottery corp,like literally. Instead of that, save up , even some tickets can change something. Lottery ticket are a garunteed no-no and statistically against you heavily too.
I worked in banking for years. Its a myth the poor don't save. They do...for years and years but....reality catches up to them eventually. Hospital bills, layoffs, divorce...economic recessions, something happens and in an instant it wipes out all their savings. So they try again...and it happens again. So..most just realize theres no winning (and most are right by the way) so they just live for the now and try to get happiness where they can.
Oh bro, just an addiction 😂
Lie. I won a lottery, got my $5 back.
After I spent 200
We have a winner!!! No hard feelings though.
@@joshdeveaux6936 Shouldn't you be in summer school?
@@joshdeveaux6936 daaammmn mate!🤣
@@Black-zr6is you can't handle my steel it's real tastes like an eel you'll fall the seal of wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel
@@joshdeveaux6936 ok great👍 imma go kick Thor's ass on fortnite again cya
Knew a guy who was so addicted to the lottery literally half his salary went into it. He'd always have a wad of tickets in his pocket. It made him feel like a winner when he won $150, even though he was dropping $1500/month to "win" it. It's a sickness.
Gambling is just another addiction. The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky had it too.
That money on Bitcoin is a better lottery
Its retardation
addiction will raise sharply because there is microtransaction/gambling in kid's game. Studies seems to show it has has a huge impact on gambling's behaviors.
My stepfather wins the lottery all the time and get money off the scratch offs. We got our roof redone one time. However, he also losses a lot...like a lot. I've known him to just stand over a trash can doing scratch offs. He's addicted to it for sure and he never has any money. He's chronically broke and oftentimes when he wins, he just gives the money to my mom to cover for money that he owes her for bills and stuff to "catch up."
If game shows were honest
"Congratulations on your all expense paid trip to Hawaii! Unfortunately you still have to pay taxes otherwise we have to revoke that trip. But look on the bright people have to spend 10's of thousands and your only speeding a few thousand! What a lucky guy you are!"
Buying lottery tickets is buying the right to fantasize about the future. It’s a form of fiction you write about yourself in your mind.
Yep. My life is going to be so different when this thing that is statistically impossible to happen, finally happens to me.
But... You can fantasize about the future without buying those. You can imagine you do the bold move of starting a buisness and working hard. Odds of that happening and buisness being sucsess are still much higher even if you are poor.
@@Ciasteczkowy hard work with no guarantees at all and a small chance at moderate success vs buying a piece of paper with no virtually no chance at all but instant life changing money. Which sounds more appealing to day dream about?
@@memyself898 I day dream with my option, so I think you can easly guess which is more apealing to me
And lord knows I already do a lot of that for free nearly all day, every day. Though all that costs me is a lot of existential crisis and mental stress with a bit of depression tax and disappointment to put in that ever expanding tip jar of life.
The lottery is a bad investment.
Why do most people who win the lottery turn out to be bad with money.
Because they are the kind of people who waste money on lottery tickets.
Except most winners aren't. Only 30% are.
@@TechnoMinarchistBall Only 30 percent go bankrupt. No going bankrupt after winning millions of dollars doesn´t mean they are good with money. dumbass
@@rodrigooliveira1822 It means that 70% don't go bankrupt.
@@TechnoMinarchistBall but that doesn't mean they're spending it wisely
Jacen Solo you can be bad with money without going brankrupt. People have lost millions without going bankrupt
He forgot to mention that if you actually won every person you know, including relatives you haven't heard from in years, will be asking you for money.
Thank you.
@lazarus921 😂😂😂😂😂
It's a GREAT way to hear from old High School chums you've not spoken to since you left High School.
I have no love for most of them so i would enjoy it
@@watersbey25 haha yea but they'll get no money from me, once i pay this month bills I'll have a whopping 200bucks yay.
He's right. The lottery is more or less a poor man's stock market. His humor is gold. We need tons more new videos.
It’s not. On stock market you actually have an edge. In a lottery organiser has the edge.
Me : wins 122 million
Dad: " comes back with the milk "
18 year old expiration date
Lol
Stolen comment
@@VegitoroSFX Yup
But I thought he went out to buy cigars?
Dare: If Mobile Game Ads Were Honest
They did that already.
My free game has taken $300 from me. 🤦♀️
For real tho, and then those playable advertisements and the real game is NOTHING like them smh
It lacks arguments, so it might be NO.
Yes
This is why I stopped gambling a year after starting it. I worked out how much I'd lost and knew it wasn't worth it. Plus, I didn't find it fun anymore.
Lol I got my ass beaten by a loan shark. That's what got me to quit.
@@Praisethesunson Whoa! Sorry to hear that. I hope your finances have recovered since.
@@Zzrdemon6633 That's cool. My mum once one £20,000 on the UK National lottery.
You need to play poker. Not those games
"The odds that you'll actually *win* the lottery are 185,000,000 to 1"
Better odds than me realistically turning my life around.
I think we're in the same boat
Well, to put the number 185 million in perspective, if you bought 100 tickets every week, you could expect to win once every 36 thousand years. You know the pyramids in Egypt? They were built 5000 years ago.
Thanks for the good laugh as I lay in bed at 6:22am this morning.
Like he says at the end, they like to make sure its still the best option available to you. That and the Army, of course!
Nah, Bitcoin and Ethereum will save me, and some alts perhaps
My friend used to work at a gas station and he agreed that it is mostly poor people who buy lotto. He said it felt like he was a drug dealer offering an escape from reality and hated the sadness and desperation in their eyes. Same goes for the alcohol. He felt so bad about it he left to find what he considered an "honest job" in construction. He seems a lot happier now.
This guy would make a great satan in a movie or show about someone selling their soul.
This guy would have been great in "The Wolf of Wall Street"
the good place
Fr tho 😂
Possibly on a new episode of......The Twilight Zone.
He reminds me of Ray Wise in Reaper.
bought a six pack at a gas station once.. bought a scratch off just for the hell of it.. won 20 bucks.. attendant asked if i wanted to buy another ticket... i was like "nah im getting another six pack.. and put the rest on pump 3." best thing to do if ya ever win a few bucks lol
It really does seem to be addicting. If my mother had put that same amount of money into a piggy bank than buying a lottery ticket for it over the years she probably would have saved up enough money to buy a new car by now. But when I tell her she just sheepishly says, yeah, she knows I'm probably right - and then proceeds to buy another lottery ticket.
Mum's not playing for a new car. She's playing for the jackpot.
Gambling addiction is a nice life destroying vice
Unbearable to imagine your numbers hitting after you quit but it’s your only hope in recovering what you’ve already lost
@@IronLungKiefKing That's just the sunk cost / concorde fallacy.
I was once that sad convenience store clerk. Some workers faithfully dump hundreds a week into it. Add State liquor stores in poor areas and you have a real cash cow.
Actually, the Powerball changed their odds late last year and made it even harder to win. It's actually closer to 1 in 250 million now. They say that because people win less it lets the prize get higher and people enjoy the bigger numbers more. Totes not a scam.
At least they add the disclaimer to “Please play responsibly”. That way it’s totally not their fault for exploiting the sense of hope that poor people have that their circumstances might change.
im more of a wine guy
JJ Ryan
Yep. Makes you wonder why Governments allow this kind of things... Could it be because Governments don't care about us like *at all??* O_O
It's a way to keep people slaves without officially going back to slavery.
Depressingly accurate! Good job.
hey guys!! love your channel....
Alltime Conspiracies I'm a subscriber too
No... if you didn't know most of these things you are the idiot who pays the idiot tax.
Alltime Conspiracies Awesome are we gonna get a Is the Lottery rigged or how they rig it?
Brandon Johnson at one time the PA lottery was rigged to pay off debts to organized crime
I love standing at a gas station trying to pay for my alcohol behind a person who wants several different themed lottery scratchies.....
Drinking's bad but yeah,. still better than being a scratch off person.
$20 poison is better than a $5 scratcher?
@@baddriversofthenorcalarea500 I might assume scratchers to be at least alcoholics too. But no, there is little worse than drinking on its own... very little.
@@baddriversofthenorcalarea500 For real, ironic comment.
I was told large winners lose half of what they win.... well the left over is still more then I have now lol
Had a buddy whos Father passed and he inherited 350k, the long time GF wanted to sue. My buddy was like "Shit, let's just save the months in court and lawyers fees and we'll go splitsies". He never felt like he lost 175k oh no, homeboy GOT 175k.
@@tothemoon4776 Why would a girlfriend get anything if there is no contract imposing it like in marriage? Book a flight to the other side of the world was also a possibility
@@sergiowinter5383 common law. They lived together for like a decade.
@@tothemoon4776 Still wouldn't make any sense... he is inheriting money from HIS father, something that belongs to HIS family. What does the relationship have to do with it, ie: splitting the profits both built together. Anyway, so much for spending so much time with that person eh.
My godfather liked to play the lottery, and I told him that if he really wanted to win a lot of money in one day, he should just put $5 in a box every week, then 5 years later open it and keep the money. He didn’t seem so enthusiastic about that idea...
$5/weeks×52weeks/year×5years=$1,300.
Yeah...I'm with your godfather since that is not a lot of money, bun.
@@DragonQuest27 the world revolves around are the us dollar, money is now debt/fiat currency. Money is long gone and stuffing it in ur mattress is the worst idea ever. “Savers are losers” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
@@DragonQuest27 online
Maybe from banks but mostly online
Ask a rich person for better info
@@DragonQuest27 oh we also are having high inflation
@@Kentrc11 it’s better than -1,300
Fact: one in three car accidents are because of phones
Humans: No that will never happen to me
Also humans: I think i can win the lottery
Bruh
you mean anericans
AsteroidLynx543 Gaming lmao
@@dustycocane While Americans are particularly bad at this because of the bullshit of the "American dream" that's been drilled in their head, all humans work like that regarding probability. Low probability bad events will never happen to them, but even lower probability good events, that they believe in. It's not just Americans.
@@Arkayjiya-somewhat agree with that except for "all humans work like that".
Humans possess various levels of awareness combined with various levels of intellectual, emotional, and experiential tools with which can, if used effectively, easily see through covert manipulation and exploitative trickery.
These are people who often appear "crazy" to the ingorant conformed majority bouncing up and down on the bandwagon.
To the fool, the genius seems foolish.
Whenever the pot goes over $200 million, I pay like $4 just so I can dream house shop at work
Your odd's go up of getting Murdered if you do win the lotto.
Exactly!
Big Steve
. Well he says your odd's are Higher of getting Murdered then winning the Lotto.
But surely your odd's are more Higher of getting Murdered if you do win the Lotto haha 😂😁
Rhydian Jones Your odds of going broke increase dramatically as well. In 2 years over half of Lotto Winners go broke
😂😂😂😂
... Or if you win the lotto and live in Detroit.
At first i thought I had 2 siblings.
When i won a lottery i discovered that i have 122...
Kristjan Tiido underrated
Ur likers is also 122.
bruh
@@mashpotato1122 Now he has 222 "Siblings," 😉
Government is the profiteer of your hopeless dreams. Spot on…😂
Here in San Diego, on Wednesdays you can barely get a Slurpee at 7-11 because all the people holding up the line buying Lotto tickets.
Slurpees are a far better way to spend a few dollars as you're guaranteed to get something.
When I was a kid my dad took me to the bank with him. There was an ad on the wall which stuck in my mind. It said: "Money doesn't buy happiness, but it has been known to put a smile on your face" ... Sounds good to me 👍
It does make you happy tho
@Chris Bishop Sounds like something the Joker would say before a heist
Money cant buy happiness but it can buy things that give you happiness
Money doesn't buy happiness,but it has been known to buy healthiness.
If you dont think money can buy happienes then you dont know where to buy my friend
Citizen: *has winning ticket*
US Government: *Soviet Union National Anthem intensifies*
Our money
Yeah there is really not much of a difference between the two.
xaxa best comment
he is not from Iran he is from Ouran
Any* government, actually
"You're not thinking about what playing the lottery for 20 years costs, right?"
*looks up from polishing my degree in finance* Bet.
A few years ago, when the lottery hit a billion dollars, someone at the office came around collecting money for a lottery pool at work. I said, "I'm sorry. My understanding of probability won't let me play." She then insisted that I'd be sorry wjhen everyone else retired and I'd still be here the next day. I just said that I'd take my chances. Once someone finally did win three or four drawings later, not only was everyone at work the next day, but out of the hundreds of dollars they spent, the winnings (they'd put in $12 each when combined [three each time] over four drawings) amounted to less than a quarter a person, so they put it back in the pool. That's almost more impressive than if they had actually won.
The Powerball would have to get over a billion dollars just to have break-even odds based on the price of a ticket and the odds of winning the jackpot. Yet people are buying tickets for it when it's under $100 million to start. It's crazy how people don't know probability.
@@Pokeball01 Yeah thats how i see it too
Lottery is just a tax on mathematical illiteracy.
nikolaneberemed If only we had a place to teach math, one full of people just teaching things. We have to make sure that it's not run by the same people that make money from the lottery though. They might lower resources in poor neighborhoods to maintain that revenue.
lol, the most smart ass thing I've read all week. xD I'm using this.
and on stupidity
Neil DeGrass Tyson said that, I believe. Or was it Bill Nye?
Here's a good word for you, innumeracy.
I’d like to cry in a mansion for once.
A friend of my mom said it quite well "What you buy is the right to dream". But it is nothing more than that.
Me: Wins lottery
Government: I'm about to end this guy's career
stop
Paul Racine yeah but some is still some you imbecile
Paul Racine and if you win 1mill the irs will take 250k so shut the your mouth
Me: your CZcams jokes suck
You: "I'm an idiot sheep."
@@sonstopsimping2677 so you only get 750 k!? Fucking chump change, who could live off that?!
Government says Bitcoin is a SCAM. ......buy lottery lol
But it IS a scam. It is the last step to make the money you own completely worthless, because it does not even have the worth o the paper it is printed on left. It s literally just a set of numbers. And if it gets too big the state will go ahead and take it in (as it was intended, because some secret agency had a plan putting out bitcoin in the first place), you will get ordered to have a chip. And if you ever disagree and are considered a very bad boy, you will get wiped, because you have NOTHING. A combination of numbers will be altered to ZERO by a few clicks and tips and the best thing is that having the chip will also make you trackable, so the NWO police force will have no issue obtaining you and locking you away without trial or excuse because you also thought that the state wanted to protect you from criminals passing their fancy anti-terrorism laws.
You're welcome.
@733Rafael If you can't understand what I stated above it already is, deadhead
@@im3phirebird81 a complete Democrat trying his best to preserve the failing mistrusted fiat. Bitcoin's (store of value) along with blockchain technology /Cryptocurrency the greatest currency all of man will be utilizing globally, shortly.
@@JesusOurKing You don't know me xD I don't even vote! I'm not even American, which you probably assumed because there is nothing but the USA, right??? Cryptocurrency is the peak of Fiat currency. When the World State takes i into their hands, you WILL HAVE NOTHING, and you will realize that after you sold your soul xD You can assume about me whatever you want, I won't fit into your neat little groups.
@@im3phirebird81 sure
“Probability works however you think it does.” Brilliant.
"Your chance of winning the lottery is exactly the same, whether you buy a ticket or not." - Fran Liebowitz
"It only stays legal because the government is the profiteer of your hopeless dreams".
Tim Garland:Say that the day you win! I DOUBLE DARE YOU with 2 scoops of vanilla
My Grandfather has been playing the lottery for 30 years. Most he's ever won on a single ticket was 1000 bucks. He won a ton of "Free Plays" a couple of bucks here and there, but the amount he spent over the years is astronomical.
My buddy works at the ampm and I told him he should start pulling the tickets that people throw away out of the garbage and fill out the second chance drawing on the back and send them in and he's won four times now in the past 6 months
Just imagine if he took that same money and pumped it into stocks or a savings account... Would be looking good right about now
@@jeremiahevans7752 My grandfather didn't really understand stocks, being an Italian immigrant who arrived shortly after WWII. Oh well, it is what it is.
Phantom Drags And it’s absolutely impossible to change their mind and tell them to stop. My grandma is the same
@@awesomeguy2009 That's because your grandfather didn't understand strategy. In those 30 years, it was almost impossible to win a jackpot, but if he played the lottery sporadically, it would still be almost impossible to win a jackpot, but at least he could save tons of money in the process.
"It's like gambling but worse" 4:18 Best line! 🤣
There's a reason why there are all these stories about the "single mother of three" or the "struggling young man with a heavy burden of student loans on his shoulders" who "miraculously changed his life forever" by buying a $2 lottery ticket. These stories are circulated for a reason and they target the poor and the poorly educated, just as described here.
So true. My mother was spending our last money for lottery tickets instead of getting some food. I was trying to eat cardboard with hope to become a millionaire. What a life.
Grandfather used to say that you have an equal chance of winning the lottery whether you buy a ticket or not.
Your grandfather is a F*cking legend 😂
Jeffry Gilbert makes scene though my grandfather had a better chance of making free money by robbing ppl
The state lottery where I lived used to say, "You can't win if you don't play!"
I'd reply, "You can't lose if you don't play...and you can't win if you do play."
Thats why he dead
Then you can double your chances with a ticket or triple them with two.
Roger is an American icon
John Pawl yeah if you like shills
John Pawl not sure that's a good thing...
You're damn right I am.
@Rogersbase Lol . Amazed to see you here
You wish LOL. :-p
Surprised to see you here. Between this, One Piece Pocast, Gamexplain, and the Bitblock I can't seem to get away from you. lol
This is spot on! I always ask friends and relatives why they buy these lottery tickets instead of saving up the money, and it’s always the same answer ‘you don’t win if you don’t play’, but the fact is that you don’t win even if you play - at least the odds are so bad that it’s comparable to being guaranteed not to win. Unfortunately most people discard or do not understand probability and therefore continue to pour their hard earned money into these legal scams. Great vid!
The odds of winning a national lottery are about the same as being hit by lightning whilst being bitten by a shark in your front yard on a clear day.
The lottery is much worse than gambling. There's no skill involved, there's no thought process put into it, worst of all you can't even cheat at it.
If you're smart enough there are ways to guess the numbers. I'm not smart enough. But there are people who've won a couple of times because they notice patterns in the numbers
Inwe Meneldur Source please.
And your odds of winning are astronomically less. Can you imagine if you went to a blackjack table where you had a 185 million to 1 chance of winning?
Inwë Meneldur Interesting. A little bit to speculative for my taste.
Actually, Mr Wheat, the odds of "winning" are much better than what you state. The game that is referenced in the video is the PowerBall, which is a lottery in the USA. The game is $2 to play, and you will win $4 if you guess the correct number out of 26 possibilities. Of course, nobody plays hoping to win $4 ...
Having worked at a grocery store that sold lottery tickets, I do remember that being the case. The successful businessman walks in and you'll never see him ask for it. But the guy who can't afford to make ends meet needs foodstamps to get by will be more than willing to get several tickets each time he's there, which is a lot.
Yup they buy lottery tickets alomg with thier smokes
You want to see the cars with the nicest rims and big, $1000 sound systems? Go to the hood. It's always the poor people with the $800 iPhone and $300 shoes.
Most of that comes from selling drugs.
So very true. Playing the lottery is a fool's bargain, at best.
Plus if multiple people win the same lottery, which is likely given that people tend to bias the numbers they choose with things like birthdays so a winner is more likely to occur when the randomly selected winning numbers happen to fit those biases, you would have to split the jackpot.
Last week i found an unmarked scratch-off someone forgot to take out of a vending machine. Took it home, scratched out its parts, STILL didn't win.
Machiner6 run charly run as fast as you can
"Literally the only reason it stays legal is because the govt is the profiteer of your hopeless dreams!" Ding ding ding ding! There it is, ladies and gents! There it is. The exact same as, "what's the difference between legal and illegal gambling?" If the govt gets a cut, it's legal. Otherwise, not so much.
how about the better explanation:
it's legal if they can provide proof that they in fact can pay out what they promise and actually do it, while also not tricking you by telling you false odds.
You needed a CZcams vid to understand this?
Same goes with prostitution, the only reason it’s illegal is because the government can’t put a tax on two people having sex.. If they could tax it and make money off of it, there’s no doubt it would be legal..
@@bullymaguire4457 prostitution is legal and is taxed in germany. your argument just doesn't make sense.
prostitution is mostly forbidden due to ethical reasons. (same as gay marriage was forbidden)
RKBock What part of it doesn’t make sense? Ethical? you think the government gives a fuck about ethics? Oh and I wasn’t talking about Germany...
I think you could have hit this zinger- "if you win, you're just profiting over the losses of poor people desperate for a better life. Enjoy."
Tax of the poor? In Germany we call it "Freiwillige Idiotensteuer" which would translate into "The voluntarily Moron-Taxes" :D
Yep. Here (New York, USA @ least) I mainly hear "Idiot Tax" & "Poor Tax" but I can imagine other names as well. Doesn't seem to deter anyone.
calling it an idiot tax, while fair, kinda just cements classism. Economic mobility is a luxury only the ever shrinking middle class enjoys. There's literally no other option for the poor if they want to stop being poor. They can't work hard to pull themselves out of poverty anymore since they get paid essentially peanuts because they're poor and can't fight back on it. And that even assumes they can get a job. So many employers look at the poor and see lazy people and don't hire them since the poor are lazy, right?
@@chaincat33 Are you talking about Germany? Because here, the minimum wage has been €12 ($13.05) since 2015. This means that no matter what someone does, they cannot earn less than €12 per hour. Starting from 2024, the minimum wage will be raised to €12.41 ($13.49) here. Eventually, according to the current Minister of Labor, Hubertus Heil, it is intended to reach €14 ($15.22).
Of course, I understand that you're probably not talking about Germany. Most likely, you're referring to the USA. I just wanted to point out that an individual's world is never the whole world. What you experience is the direct result of your country's politics. And if we are indeed talking about the USA, I can say that it's their desired approach. It's the concept of unconditional capitalism being implemented in a 'survival of the fittest' manner.
However, in other countries around the world, they don't always try to blackmail their population into submission by threatening them with starvation. There are plenty of places where people who haven't reached the middle class can afford to buy lottery tickets. And those who play the lottery are simply to stupid for mathematics. Neither the social nor the economic culture of their own country can change that.
If a lottery ticket costs $1, it's more sensible to lay that dollar on the ground and stick another one next to it next week. In the end, you will have a cardboard house made entirely of dollar bills that you can live in. And that will still be faster than winning $10,000 in the lottery.
@@chaincat33I agree with very much of what you've written...
"There's literally no other option" meaning that the lottery is a legitimate chance?
@@chaincat33 "There's literally no other option for the poor if they want to stop being poor" not all places are the US.
It's funny because it's true.
On a side note, the company I work for got rid of bonuses this year and just gave everyone 3 scratch-offs.
After 15 years working there, I don't have those dreams anymore.
I did win a dollar, but that isn't even worth the effort to go redeem it.
were* where is a place, were is a state of being. it's 2016 people!
ahh that's some rip-off bullshit right there
That sucks. I'm sorry.
Tony Alexander WTF? Really?
"cant win if you dont play" I actually win but not playing, but hey, it's your paycheck.
Ryan more like you don't lose by playing
You cant lose if you dont play also :)
Plus you'll save more money
Ryan but they also take money away from your paycheck lol
From what ive seen most of the winners are usually people who either game the system to tip the odds in their favor, or those who spend almost as much as they win back. I do play occasionally for the hell of it but just breaking even is a win for me.
it does happen though... Fella in my town won 22.5 million on the lotto here
Does he now seem happy + fulfilled?
Of course it happens. There was that guy who got struck by lightning 7 times. It just won’t happen to you - statistically speaking.
Also people who win the lottery often end up broke anyways or they end up isolated from their friends, family, and community.
@@Jaxomh Don't really have friends, I don't talk to anyone from the community, I only got my father, sister and mother soooo I'll be fine.
Yeah, but it's rare, and hardly anyone does it. Is their money almost gone? Maybe they're down to their last $47,000 by now.
Do you really think that if they don't cash out a little once every 140 million times people would still keep playing? You just fell for it bud
My neighbor has been murdered 5 times and still plays lotto.
Hahahahahah
best comment ever
😂😂😂😂😂
Is he a cat?
Well 7995 times more and he could win
Buys lottery tickets in California.
Some guy wins in South Carolina.....
Hey fuck that out of state guy.
@@666Kazekage666 He could have been a Californian, who bought the ticket in South Carolina. Ya know?
@@Trapster99 fuck em anyway for winning lol
Jiren? What are you doing here?
Better that.. then your neighbor 😏
Another great one :) The only significant area you left out was following the money. Where the Sam Hill does all of that money go? Who and how many people typically run a State Lottery? What is their overheard/payroll? How many Lottery employees make over $100k per year? How much is their pension we're all paying for? These are the kinds of simple, probing questions no news organization has ever asked or reported on. If we knew The Truth, we'd all likely be marching on our state capitol tomorrow to change this shadowy, nearly mafia-like underworld of State Lotteries.
So long as you accept the fact that you're pretty much just throwing money away, and are ok with that, go ahead and play. My grandma justified why she plays the lottery in a pretty good way imo.
"I don't play because I think I'll win. I play for the *hope* of winning. It's spending $2 for a dream, and I think that's worth it."
Kinda sad ngl
I'm tired of pretending...what does imo mean?
@@Divine_4222 In my opinion
imo means in my opinion
@@Divine_4222 Don't listen to the other people, imo means "intimately masturbating orangutan"
playing the lottery is like paying taxes twice
More like 1.5 in most countries
Not for those who _never_ Pay to begin with.
Simply, it allows them to pay for the first time.
And yes… I know this firsthand.
😂😂😂
more than twice. You have to LITERALLY pay taxes twice (once immediately on every distribution, once as part of your normal yearly income taxes)...plus the idiot tax for participating in the first place.
1. Tax on purchase
2. Tax on winning (?)
3. Tax on stupidity
So more like... 2.000000007
gambling, a way to get nothing out of something.
Or to take your something and end up with nothing
How to earn a million dollars gambling:
Step 1: start with ten million dollars...
Sitting Pyro Justin Trudeau - a way to get nothing out of something
Sitting Pyro I once won like 300 euro :D which I know isn't much but let me have this
There are many things I wish for in my life. Winning the lottery is NOT one of those wishes. Excellent video.
If lotteries weren’t advantageous to states, they wouldn’t have them.
Here in Brasil the announced prize is what you actually get, they already advertise It with taxes deducted and they pay all at once
Other countries do it that way too. The US is the land of falsely advertised bullshit.
Do you win the girl from Ipanema from lottery?
still, in the Mega da Virada, the total collected money is like R$1,5 billion, but the prize itself is around R$200 million
@@NeverTalkToCops1 with that amount if money you can get as many girls as you want lmao
In "Brasil" they spell it with an s? Well hell, why is the rest of the world spelling it wrong then, the name should be what the actual country itself calls it. Though Japan is more ridiculous, they call themselves Nippon, wtf are we calling them Japan if their name for themselves is Nippon.
“50% of lottery winners report no improvement in overall happiness “.... probably true, but I would much rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable!
The main reason for that would be that the high they get from buying stuff would diminish over time. Eventually, they'd get almost no high off buying anything, or only once or twice a year. The more you do something the less exciting and rewarding it is. Most lottery winners would probably get more enjoyment after a few years of seeing people with nothing get something for once in their life (from them), in the form of a low interest loan say.
It's needed for our basic needs
If I could buy my own place and get as much food as I want without money then I could find happiness without it because I know that material items doesn't buy me happiness.
@@justinpettit3432 It buys the temporary illusion of happiness, that wears off after a fairly short while.
Justin Pettit ain’t welfare grand?
The differences between getting rich by hard work and getting instantly rich from winning the lottery is that as a hard working individual your network is probably of comparable wealth as you. Where a lottery winner will suddenly find himself being the slumdog millionaire. Also; especially in the united states; people will instantly know you are millionaire and you didn't work hard for it. So people feel more entitled to ask you for something over someone who slowly became rich over time.
Instead of spending $10 a week on the lottery for a grain of chance, just put that $10 into a Robinhood account. Even if it fell 50% over 20 years, at least you still have some of your money left.
Doing gods work on this one. Epic vid my friend.
the chance is higher to get killed by a vending machine than to win xD
“If you don’t have enough money to rich gamble and play the stock market...” THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT.
@@maxwellboyne2770 thank you! If a 20 year old puts away $95/month into a target fund that grows on average 7% per year, they’ll have $1 million by the time they reach 65. Even with a minimum wage job, that is completely feasible.
@@Post-MoMitch that sad asf
The needy and the greedy are the most susceptible to get rich quick schemes.
@@corojohn42stock market is only worth it with long term investments.
I don't get it why people think that stocks is gambling? Having stocks of the biggest businesses of the world seems much less risky than holding money that will be worth less over time because of inflation, while the big stocks can 2x or 3x your money on 3-5 years
My dad won 10k from a lottery when he was 20. I did some quick maths at one point, and figured out he's spent that much money in lottery tickets since
This is the most savage takedown of anything I've ever seen.
I already live a life of regret and isolation
sory
Ops.. It seems there are two of us!
Oh, plz don't do THAT!
Are your poor?
Don’t we all
The bit that got me was
Joseph: "Wait--"
Roger: "Eh, no."