Dad just bought two 20 dollar lottery tickts & won nothing

@sarabee1995 I don't think there will ever be a shortage of people looking to get rich quick without any effort on their part.

@AcidBurn You don't think our generation is smarter than that?

@sarabee1995 hell no! These record jackpots fueled by record ticket sales prove it's most definitely not. The store I worked at for years sold lottery tickets. There's no doubt in my mind the average age of lottery customers was somewhere between 25 and 35.

@AcidBurn Wow. I literally know no one who buys tickets on a regular basis. I did once for a Yankee Swap gift.

@sarabee1995 I personally don't either. But being at the point of sale I saw the usual people, a lot of which came in on a daily basis for lottery. A side effect of this generation being handed whatever they want is that they never learn to value anything. I'd ask them if they'd ever won anything. Most would say no, or a hundred bucks or something. Some said they don't even play with the hope of winning. It was fun and cheap... of course it's only cheap if you don't look at the big picture. Five bucks a week does add up.
That being said, I dont think this generation, or any other, shows a lack of intelligence by playing the lottery. Like anything else in life, it's fine in moderation.

@AcidBurn You're right (of course) ... It's just that [b]for me[/b], money is too hard to come by to spend it on gambling. But then I'll go spend money on other things (adventures, adrenaline rushes) that someone else would consider a waste of money.