It's easy, just stick to confirmation bias and never remember all times you played and lost. You'll win every time!

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I hate that I know exactly what to do with it and yet somehow I never catch a break

If she knew how to rig a lottery she probably wouldn't have worked there for 36 years.

This is how you know life is not fair and is a legit simulation.

I play only when > 1B

Oh, you mean China, whose population is greater than the US and EU combined (double, in fact), and where the majority of our everyday consumer goods are manufactured is outputting more CO2 than those countries? I'm shocked. 😐

Their per capita CO2 output is less than half that of the US.

I accept your challenge and am willing to prove to you how much fun I can have with just my current hobbies/family lif3 while doing it affordably and not working for money.

I'll wait for my check in the mail!

If I was making 100k/year passively I think I would be able to support my current lifestyle and have fun doing it. I have enough hobbies and interests to keep me busy. I think winning several million would be enough for me to stop working.

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I know a lot of people have said this but you don't know what desires are lurking underneath your subconscious until that time comes!

I'm guessing you aren't a native English speaker? The title isn't saying or implying to go out and buy a ticket at all. It's just saying that's what happened.

That plant is an armpit. Hope she was out of there the second she got the news.

Huh

That's why I say that I'm only playing for $300M+. Anything less than that would be trouble. Saying that you can retire on several million is not exactly true for most people. Sure, you could quit your job and have fun, but you'd blow through that money quickly simply by being bored and looking for fun things to do that are expensive. With just a few million, you can invest that and recreate your current income. But, what are you currently doing with your current income? You go to work 40-ish hours a week and plan a vacation for a week or 2 out of the year. Delete the work requirements and you find yourself doing nothing but wanting to go do things.

With a few hundred million, you can invest that and have a couple million to spend year-over-year. Plenty to use to occupy your time with little worry of wanting to dip into the investment.

At least, that's my plan. I'm risk-averse, so I'm not going to go nuts at a casino, or go on drug fueled bender, or travel around the world looking for the next high.

And Boeing just delivered its very last 747.

How fitting.

How the hell is this uplifting?

> I wouldn't even know what to do with that much money.

Becoming a "former employee" would be high on my list of priorities.

It goes up even after you buy the ticket.

And basically doxxed herself in the process. Well done

Why is it that everytime I get a sign to play the lottery I never win.

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It's funny to see how much worse the USA is in regards to lottery wins, than my country (UK)..

I always think of rights to privacy, less state intervention, less taxes, etc when I think of the USA. A country where individualism is king.

Yet in the UK you never have to tell anyone you've won a jackpot on a lottery, and there's zero taxes on gambling winnings.

Seems like such a cursed monkey paw wish to win hundreds of millions, only to have to broadcast the fact to everyone by law.

In the UK there's a running theme of big winners regretting going public (by choice)..

Right, but say it is claimed by one person. An attorney. Who you hired and contracted to claim it. And the money is then transferred into a trust for you by the attorney.