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Old 02-20-2019, 01:04 PM   #47
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This is going to sound a bit political, but here goes .... let me know if I'm crossing a line...


Everyone seems to love and celebrate a lottery winner's good fortune when they win millions of dollars and become extremely rich....


But the folks who create and build companies, employ thousands of people, and most of whom donate millions every year to cure diseases, help fight poverty and hunger... those folks are hated, at least by a significant percentage of the US population, because they are extremely rich.


Soooo... It's great to become rich through the lottery, but NOT through hard work and/or enterprise? Never quite understood that apparent disconnect...
Not political just human nature to think that anybody with more was simply handed it while everybody with less works so hard.


My favourite lottery thing is when somebody like a doctor or that people consider already "rich" wins. All of a sudden there is an out cry of "It's not FAIR" and "They don't NEED it". Need is not definable and anybody that buys a ticket has an equal chance of winning so it is perfectly fair.
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