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context: if the prize isn't 2 billion, the ticket's not worth the 2 bucks >
  
  Yeah the math doesn't work but irrationality isn't based on math. Every year or so I'll randomly buy a ticket, it is useful to dream for a few minutes about what if.... >
  
  I had absolutely nothing to do at work yesterday so I bought a ticket on my lunch break and spent the rest of the afternoon browsing through million dollar mansions in Mexico. Best $2 I ever spent. >
  
  They should somehow alter it to 640 one million winners. Change some lives instead of changing one life. >
  
  That'd be a great marketing for the game. Imagine if they announce there will be a thousand winners getting $100,000 instead of one person getting $100 million. That can be a live changing event for quite a few people >
  
  LOL...family spent $400 on those scratch off tickets... in total, 1 FREE winner, and two $5 winners. 
  Lottery is tax for the stupid, and yet... I won $5 !!! LOL... >
  
  Yep some people swear by it tho. Rather own a lottery than buy it >
  
  CJ: "Ah shit, here we go again." >
  
  Conspiracy theorists in me wonders if anyone really ever wins the big jackpots or if it’s just a scam. . . >
  
  Conspiracy theories about things that can easily be proven true or false should never become conspiracy theories. >
  
  I had a co-worker spout a conspiracy theory that would've required THOUSANDS of people to be in on it and he saw it as quite legit.   
  I asked him if his family had any secrets and he replied "Yes, of course" and I then I said "Do you know any you're not supposed to?" and he said "A few,  yes".   I hit him with "If the people in  your family that want a secret can't keep it as such, how do you think thousands of strangers would do so?" 
  He hoped on the "Well they'd all be killed or dead if they said anything...".  I tapped out.