I got a package the other day from an online order I had made. My wife asked what it was and I joked and said it might be a bomb, some dust with poison or a virus or something. We laughed at the thought but it got me thinking of all the packages I just open without thinking all the time. I would never know it was a bomb until after it went off in my hands.
And this post says a lot about the human inability to assess various types of risk amongst high / low likelihood and how much damage/benefit a given risk is capable of. Many might think, eee $1M, so good, but cannot project forward, as studies of lottery winners have found, that within a year or two the winner is back at their baseline economic level. But it’s rare the person who thinks, “I can hire a financial manager, to help me with this windfall.”
You’ve won the lottery; obviously your only option is to immediately develop unsustainable spending habits while abandoning all sources of income.
LoL, that’s exactly what I would do. /s