• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There are also lotteries that spend most of the money on charity. Worst case you do something good with most of the money you put in. Nothing wrong with that

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      11 months ago

      I’m not arguing whether anything is wrong with it or not. You could literally be shredding bank notes as a hobby. If it makes you happy, I’m not arguing against.

      I’m rather saying someone who’s confident in statistics doesn’t need arguing here. They’ll intrinsically know the chance of winning is effectively 0. As such, they assume that their money will go to charity. But since the lottery company keeps a cut as profit, giving it this way is just worse than giving to charity directly.