VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat is something that only exists because people are stupid?message-squaremessage-square182fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down14
arrow-up1124arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something that only exists because people are stupid?VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square182fedilink
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down2·2 months agoLotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
minus-squareDigDoug@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·2 months agoLotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 months agoI’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it. …which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…
Lotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
Lotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
I’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it.
…which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…