• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    people know the chances

    This article agrees. Huge caveat:

    …Osmond…obtained a database from the Connecticut Lottery containing 21 years’ worth of winners. What did he find?

    They are largely poor, largely minorities, and often addicts.

    The lottery preys on these people.

    Vox, “4 ways the lottery preys on the poor”, 2016