Thread 521269730

The lottery ticket is the portfolio of the mediocre.

A truly successful person - one who'd studied with total diligence and worked with extreme focus - would not need, nor purchase, such a thing. That person's success is guaranteed, and their portfolio contains example after example of said-success, to present to others accordingly.

The unsuccessful person, devoid of such diligence and focus, instead chooses to pin their hopes and dreams on this. The lottery ticket. They rely on pure chance to somehow help extricate themselves from the utter mediocrity they've wallowed in for years. Decades, even. All their "eggs are in one basket," so to speak, because they lack the courage to take an idea, work hard and run with it.

Gonna win the $50M Powerball, tonight. I just know it.

>>521269730 (OP)

Hope is good medicine. The price of the ticket is cheap enough for the hope it brings.

>>521269730 (OP)
seems similar to the people who gamble on shitcoins only that they think they are smart traders

>>521269730 (OP)
I once randomly bought 150 dollars of powerball tickets and only won 30 bucks. Its not worth it and statisically you'll never win. Even the pick 3 is impossible

>>521269730 (OP)
Anyone here won it ?

Lottery, shitcoin gambling, etc. is infinitely more logical than going to work every day as a wagie when you know, via the same mathematics, that your chances of ever living that successful life are 0. At least with the lottery, except when it's rigged to pay Epstein, you have a chance >0 to win, however tiny.

>>521270000
You just did. With those zeroes.

I've wasted two bucks on worse than a mild thrill
Only buy a single ticket every now and again and fuck Mega Millions of they think I'm ever paying five dollars for one

>>521270000
future me

>>521270034
Proof jews rig the lottery.
>>521270000
Damn you shlomo and those digits.

>>521269730 (OP)
>one who'd studied with total diligence and worked with extreme focus

kind of like how Jeffrey Epstein won the lottery the day he went to prison?

>>521269730 (OP)
>All their "eggs are in one basket," so to speak
You believe those people don't have jobs?
Hoping you'll win something, after spending $1, isn't that big of a deal or of an expense.

>>521269730 (OP)
Stonks and shitcoins are chance. Speculation is gambling. Jews simply increase their odds by cheating.

>>521270262
it was just luck stop asking questions goy

>>521270000
There are people who have won multiple jackpots, almost as though they know a secret to winning...

It's a tax on stupid people

>>521270000
Dozens of times
Normally buy a soda pop with my winnings

Gambling with money, in any form is just a taxation of the poor

>>521269801
>I'M...... I'M GONNA HOOOOOOOOPE
>JUST ONE MORE TICKET BRO IT'S ONLY $2 IT BRINGS ME HOOOOOOPE
>YES I'VE BOUGHT 3 PER DAY FOR THE PAST 14 YEARS BUT BRO IT'S GOOD IT BRINGS ME HOOOOOOPE
>NO I DON'T TRY AND JUST MAKE MORE MONEY LMAO BRO THE CHEAP LOTTERY TICKET BRINGS ME ALL THE HOOOOOOOPE I NEED

>>521269730 (OP)
>t. Played Powerball and Oz Lotto a few times, lost, and is now coping

>>521269730 (OP)
>run simulator
>100 tickets per second
>let it run for an hour or so
>come back
>lost a shit ton of money

>>521270000
i won 2 thousand bucks on scratch offs this year and i only bought 800 bucks worth of the tickets, i gotta say it feels good to be rich af

>>521269730 (OP)
you think that's bad, try being a musician.
literally better chance of winning the lottery than being a famous musician.

>>521271154
keep doing it to make sure you end up with a loss via the law of large numbers

>>521271216
Can't you just spam Soundcloud with millions of AI generated tracks and make like $0.001 every time someone clicks on one of them by mistake? There was some guy on /mu/ bragging about this

>>521269730 (OP)
I won $1M on our lotto when I was 19, still have a bit left but I did do some really stupid shit with it

>>521269730 (OP)
A Tax for those shit at maths.

>>521269730 (OP)
>A truly successful person - one who'd studied with total diligence and worked with extreme focus - would not need, nor purchase, such a thing.
That's actually incorrect. When a large jackpot pops up, they do purchase a few tickets, because a highly improbably chance is better than zero chance. The expenditure is meaningless to them too.

>>521271371
Sup DJ.

Cunts, in the unlikely event that you do win, don't be a ferocious faggot and tell people about your win. That's pure retardation.
Don't listen to any cunt here who tells you to invest in anything. Sort your finances, living situation and personal well-being out first, and then do your own research.
Again, don't tell anyone!

>>521269730 (OP)
Best casino in the world is Wall Street.
This is the mental toolkit you will need to achieve success.

The thing is literally designed to rip you off. How else would lottery have so much money of it didn't have millions of suckers to fund it?

>>521269730 (OP)
I won 130m GBP on euro millions

>>521272093
It varies state by state here but in lots of places winners are public record. Some people make a shell corporation they claim wins under to obfuscate it a little but you can't really hide from all the parasitic companies that target ignorant lottery winners

>>521272472
When I won I HAD to get my picture taken holding the big cheque for their advertisements

it's like all other forms of gambling
play the smallest amount possible and no more
if you can't afford that, don't play
simple

I know a lot of pretty well off people who once in a blue moon buy a few tickets when the jackpot gets really big. 20 bucks doesn't go far these days and isn't much to people well into 6 figure salaries but even being comfortably well off and having a nice home and disposable income to buy things like boats ans fancy new tech hundreds of millions is still life changing amounts of money so every once in a while the office buying a round of tickets or crossing your fingers with the family knowing full well how unlikely it is but flirting with the idea anyway is just kinda fun. The sort of people who play religiously to have something to cling onto and especially the sort who piss what little they have down the drain on false hope buying a bunch of scratch offs every payday or one or two every day as a ritual, especially the ones who are then using their gibmedats check and SNAP benefits they aren't allowed to spend on things like that to cover their actual necessities, are an entierly different beast and are very sad and pathetic to the point of being contempable.

>>521269730 (OP)
Literally better off playing random horse racing pick 3s

A lesson on expectancy and Kelly criterion should disabuse most thinking gentlemen reading from going to casinos anymore. You really cannot beat negative expectancy in the long run.

World's most honest slot machine would be something with a basic Windows 95 looking interface:
+Top box would say "-$0.0133.../$1" meaning 1.33... cents per dollar bet expectancy (against the player).
+Next box down would be your balance.
+Third box would be bet amount.
+Next box after would be your desired win reward.*
+Below that, a slider representing desired odds of win.*
*(These are, thanks to the fixed expectancy value, ganged inversely to each other.)
+Then, an 8 digit number will be displayed below the slider (looks like an odometer); This number is the 'strike' number.
+Below the strike number, a set of 8 blank spots for numbers where the 'roll' result goes.
+Finally, a big fat roll button.

Player puts in a bank amount, inputs his bet size, and sets either his reward or odds of win, which are inversely related in order to maintain the house edge. The strike is the number the CSPRNG derived value must equal or exceed, and goes up and down inversely with odds of win. The player hits roll, a value from the RNG is instantly pulled, checked, and displayed, and the win or loss occurs with no bells or whistles... no 'cummies' for me please.

>>521269730 (OP)
It takes hardly any time to play it. Throw a few bucks at a small chance to multiply it. Thinking anymore about it is what’s stupid.

>odds of dying from a shark attack: 1:4,500,000
>odds of dying in a plane crash -- 1:11,000,000
>odds of dying from a lightning strike -- 1:19,000,000
>odds of winning first division lottery -- 1:45,000,000
There's a rather explicable reason why kikes get rich from casinos...

>>521272344
Good Boy Points? That makes for a LOT of chicken tenders.

It's the poor man's fantasy tax

https://quatism.com/lottery.htm

Guarantees you win

>>521272344
Have you wasted all of it already?
The smart thing to do in such a situation would be to spread it out to various relatively safe investments and live off the interest

>>521269730 (OP)
Fantastic thread but that $50M is mine!

>>521274868
Like fuck, ya cunt! Got me creedy fuckin PAWS on it!