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Funny that he started the article seeming like he was going to show using math that the lottery was a good investment idea, when in fact it isn't according to his own estimation.

As to the entertainment value of dreaming that you've won the lottery, obviously nobody should be told they CAN'T enter. But what some call a dream I call self-delusion. We have a pervasive idea in this country that we're all going to become rich eventually and it's simply not true.




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