&gt;but it also doesn&#x27;t include the additional value of the money if you invested it wisely<p>I don&#x27;t understand how this could be brought into the argument at all. Surely we are just speaking about present value of the money and ignoring how it&#x27;s spent? Money that gets invested instead of spent wasn&#x27;t different in quantity in any way. Investing the money you spent on the ticket instead of buying the ticket was also a possibility-- presumably we didn&#x27;t account for that since we called it a $2 ticket.