english: And economists -- forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery -- but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet -- which, by the way, doesn't require that you actually go to the store and buy anything.
non_english: A ekonómovia -- ospravedlňujem sa tým, ktorí hráte lotériu -- ale ekonómovia, aspoň medzi sebou, označujú lotériu ako daň z hlúposti. Pretože pravdepodobnosť, že sa vám vráti investícia, ktorú ste vložili do nákupu lístku, je zhruba rovnaká, ako keď tie peniaze spláchnete do záchoda -- k čomu, mimochodom, ani nepotrebujete ísť do obchodu a niečo si tam kupovať.