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To call this foolish is pure hindsight bias.

Winning the lottery doesn't mean it was smart to play. (To get technical, it was dumb to play ex ante but smart to play ex post. Or, more simply: hindsight is 20-20.)

Though I admit it's fun to play shoulda/woulda/coulda, as I did myself recently: http://messymatters.com/babygoog




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