I think that the lottery is a game for poor people who just seem to be dead-set on remaining poor. This is not an elitist point of view, I don't think I am better than everyone else, I just think that if someone was presented with the astronomical near impossibility of winning the lottery in terms that were easy to understand, only the truly thick-witted would ever do it.
There are so many stories out there about people who cannot get by on their income and how they are one paycheck away from losing it all and often these are the same people that play the lottery on a regular basis. There is also the stories about how almost all big lotto winner end up broke less than a decade later and the amount of money that they win doesn't seem to make any difference. A normal person like me finds it impossible that someone could possibly squander $100 million dollars no matter how irresponsible they are but that is precisely what ends up happening. There are very few long-term success stories about lottery winners and there are loads of bad ones.
however, anytime something impossible happens or I suppose wildly improbable, the media makes certain that everyone hears about it. The stories of smiling faces, lives changed, and happiness all around fill the news cycle while the stories of drug addiction, deterioration of the family as one member becomes the piggy bank for relatives they didn't know they had, and even so much as depression and suicide well, those stories don't make the news and this is by design.
However, when someone wins a big ticket prize twice in 8 years, the news jumps all over that.
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This Maryland man is choosing to remain anonymous this time around and while I cannot be sure about this, it is likely because he learned his lesson the first time around when he won $250,000 on a lottery ticket 8 years ago.
The story even plugs about how much easier it is to get lottery tickets using their app that the winner just conveniently happened to mention during the interview. I am absolutely certain that wasn't scripted at all.
The winner was also very vague about what he did with the previous winnings where he said he bought a new car and boosted his savings. Well dear Maryland lotto winner I certainly hope you are telling the truth here but given the horrible nature of our government (who owns the lottery) it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was a bunch of hogwash as well. Almost all lottery winners end up kind of ruining their lives because of it and as strange as it sounds for a large influx of cash being capable of ruining ones life, that does seem to be the case.
I like to believe that if I won the lottery I would do something incredibly simplistic with it such as put it in a fixed rate account with guaranteed interest and NEVER REMOVE IT. But then again we will never know because I would never play the lottery.
Remember, the house always wins in these things and if it was any other way, you can believe that the house wouldn't participate in these things at all.
This guy is an anomaly and I just think it is "dumb" because anytime there is something good that comes out of the lottery the news media is all over it. They are climbing over themselves to crack this rather stupid story over and over again. On the flip side when someone has their life spiral after a lottery jackpot, delves into drugs and wastes all the money and even kills themselves, the news is awfully quiet about that probably at the urging of the lottery administration themselves.
If they were being truly honest they would publish how incredibly unlikely it is that you ever win anything in the lotto. I can assure you, if you ran a lottery, you would be forced to publish that sort of information and make it look as nasty as possible. But when the government does it, everything is all sunshine and rainbows.
