Take it from George Orwell - winning the lottery is largely imaginary

[barryqwalsh]

George Orwell wrote this in his novel 1984: “The Lottery, with its weekly payout of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention … Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”

Take it from George Orwell - winning the lottery is largely imaginary Peter Bradshaw Comment is free The Guardian

 

[prison/con.net]

people are stupid for not insisting that instead of one guy winning 100 million (half of it lost to taxes) that 400 should get 1/4 million each ( no tax at all). If you can't make 1/4 mill retire you, then you don't deserve any sort of prize. Since so many would just BLOW the 1/4 million and since everything else is taxed, the govt would get back PLENTY of money to pay for administering the lottery, plus quite a bit of income with which to run the (very small) govt/military that is actually needed. With such an increase in the odds of winning, MANY more people would play the lottery, a lot more often. So the net take would vastly increase, and a lot more people would be retired, opening up job slots.

Anyone with any sense would take the 1/4 mill and go retire in Portugal or Uruguay