Friday, March 30, 2012

First, win it, then tell me what you'll do with it

$640 million mega-millions lottery pot. Makes one wonder why people get so much more excited about it than a $50 million prize. Either one the odds are a decimal point followed by a long row of zeros & an unfathomable amount to lottery players.  It's more exciting to bet $5 at the race track. Lottery commercials honestly tell us we're buying a fantasy, "A dollar & a dream." "Hey, you never know." The big lottery is an optional tax on working people that they choose to pay.

If you've worked where most employees are under-valued & under-paid,  like a large retail store, you know what the lottery is about. You sit in the break room at lunchtime & the conversations are "I'm gonna do this & I'm gonna buy that." The winning numbers are announced & for a couple of days people talk about other stuff. Then it starts all over again.

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