Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?message-squaremessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1209arrow-down149file-text
arrow-up1160arrow-down1message-squareIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square153fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremeco03211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down3·11 months agoAlso most lottery winners end up dead or bankrupt within a few years of winning.
minus-squareBilbo Baggins@hobbit.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-211 months agoThe Google response seems to agree with you, but this Berkeley study says the opposite: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf (Fixed link.)
minus-squaremeco03211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoDunno if it’s bad for mobile or just a bad link but I got a 404.
Also most lottery winners end up dead or bankrupt within a few years of winning.
The Google response seems to agree with you, but this Berkeley study says the opposite:
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf
(Fixed link.)
Dunno if it’s bad for mobile or just a bad link but I got a 404.
I guess that’s my point