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.