• Penny7@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong - I’m not American, so I wouldn’t see this regularly - but I swear I heard about a lotto jackpot or two that hit the billions of dollars (maybe it was close, if wasn’t that much). So it’s possible (rare as all fuck, but possible on occasion) to get to that - or close to it - without building it on the backs of the working class. If that happened to DominusOfMegadeus then that would be awesome! All for it. It’s unfortunately more likely that you’re crushing people’s spines as you climb the mountain of them to reach that amount though. Blargh…

    • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      Lotteries are a tax on poor people.

      They are also a “bread and circuses” type thing.

      Plus basically all the winners end off worse than before/dead