Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for September 30, 2020
September 29, 2020
October 01, 2020
Transcript:
We already put warning labels on cigarettes. Why not lottery tickets too? Mathematician General's Warning: The expected value of this piece of paper is- $2.18. Side effects may include losing $2.18.
I think the main thing lottery tickets sell is a dream.
It gives people the fantasy for a week or two that things may get unimaginably better, which is probably worth the $2 or $5 or whatever they cost.