@Camzing to Ask LemmyEnglish • 1 year agoIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?message-square149arrow-up1209arrow-down150file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1message-squareIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?@Camzing to Ask LemmyEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square149file-text
minus-square@meco03211link9•1 year agoAlso most lottery winners end up dead or bankrupt within a few years of winning.
minus-squareBilbo BagginslinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-21 year agoThe Google response seems to agree with you, but this Berkeley study says the opposite: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf (Fixed link.)
minus-square@meco03211link2•1 year agoDunno if it’s bad for mobile or just a bad link but I got a 404.
Also most lottery winners end up dead or bankrupt within a few years of winning.
The Google response seems to agree with you, but this Berkeley study says the opposite:
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf
(Fixed link.)
Dunno if it’s bad for mobile or just a bad link but I got a 404.
I guess that’s my point