Obviously a moot point - you can do what you want with your money, but I think your reasoning is flawed.<p>According to some replies in this thread, there are 292 million combinations.  If the Powerball is played once a week, then your expected wait time for picking the winning number is 5.6 million years.<p>Now let&#x27;s take a line of you and your heirs for the next 5.6 million years.  To say that being short 2 dollars on something will not make a life changing difference in that time frame is naive.  Anyone who has lived in poverty will be able to relate to this.<p>In fact, I will challenge you even further.  For many people on this planet $2 US would be the difference between eating today and not.  Having $2 can help them decide to buy medicine for their ill child rather than food.  Or a mosquito net that will save their life rather than food.<p>You only think the marginal utility of having $2 is zero because you are so rich that you choose to discard your money without considering if there is something better you could do with it.  Sure, it may not make a big difference to you, but the value is nonzero.