So... you're jealous that the winner of a lottery got the money without merit and therefore oppose providing subsistence income to poor people?
Intelligence and wealth are correlated, but not nearly as cleanly as you think. More importantly, taste for the various vices of life are not at all correlated with intelligence. Except maybe positively.
Desperation is the key ingredient to participation in lotteries. I realized this when an entire cohort of mathematics phd candidates at a top program bought lottery tickets. They understood the odds. They also made 20K/yr and faced the worst job market in a century. Desperation with basically zero meaningful opportunity cost. What are they going to do, invest it? They aren't even invested in fucking social security after 6 years of 80 hour weeks.
Intelligence and wealth are correlated, but not nearly as cleanly as you think. More importantly, taste for the various vices of life are not at all correlated with intelligence. Except maybe positively.
Desperation is the key ingredient to participation in lotteries. I realized this when an entire cohort of mathematics phd candidates at a top program bought lottery tickets. They understood the odds. They also made 20K/yr and faced the worst job market in a century. Desperation with basically zero meaningful opportunity cost. What are they going to do, invest it? They aren't even invested in fucking social security after 6 years of 80 hour weeks.