The "lottery" was first introduced in America by the Italian mafia of NYC , then it was called "numbers" and those who wanted to play were known as "running numbers".
It was a scam then, it's a scam now. They "give away" tens or hundreds of millions ...has anyone done the math to find out where the money would have to come from in order to make this a profitable venture ? If the "jackpot was $1M you have to sell 5 HUNDRED THOUSAND TICKETS. That doesn't include the costs of running the "operations"
Once you start breaking down how many people it employs, a rough baseline salary for them..you realize that this is,was, and will always be a multi-state scam that people enjoy because they are so deluded into thinking that they "have a chance to win" that they simply don't care.
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The "lottery" was first introduced in America by the Italian mafia of NYC , then it was called "numbers" and those who wanted to play were known as "running numbers".
It was a scam then, it's a scam now. They "give away" tens or hundreds of millions ...has anyone done the math to find out where the money would have to come from in order to make this a profitable venture ? If the "jackpot was $1M you have to sell 5 HUNDRED THOUSAND TICKETS. That doesn't include the costs of running the "operations"
Once you start breaking down how many people it employs, a rough baseline salary for them..you realize that this is,was, and will always be a multi-state scam that people enjoy because they are so deluded into thinking that they "have a chance to win" that they simply don't care.