But I am somebody just as the person that won is somebody.
I spent 12 bucks this time around, a little more than usual, it was still fun and I still have a chance at today’s drawing for 170 million and another drawing tonight for 187 grand and if that don’t work out there’s always the Lotto47 for 1.8 million. A lot smaller than a billion but I’ll take it.
It’s fun and I enjoy it.
Just have to go check my horoscope for my lucky numbers.
It’s worth some effort to maintain privacy in a situation like that. I’d make sure no one in my family could recognize me, using techniques like this:
Hey, I checked our tickets this morning, and we won! Four whole dollars. Of course, we bought three two-dollar tickets, but that’s a minor detail, right?
Any human being who works a full-time job should make enough money to support themselves.
If your company can’t afford to pay a living wage to ALL your employees then your business model is fundamentally broken.
And their children!
At some point in the last couple of generations Americans seem to have forgotten that the minimum wage was meant as a floor for what constitutes a decent living, not a wage suitable only for teenagers who still live at home looking for a way to make a little extra spending money.
That’s just what the person who won would say!
I suspect one might need to change names as well as wear a disguise.
What annoys me is the right-wing talking point that only teenagers hold certain jobs - and if an adult works at those, then there’s something wrong with them. That lie is what they use to justify pushing back against living wages, along with ignoring the realities of part-time work, inconsistent scheduling, and exceptions to the minimum wage exploited by too many employers. They double down by claiming those adult workers are lazy and/or uneducated, so they should improve their earnings by somehow finding enough extra time and money to pay for college. That fits in with their other lie - that there are lots of full-time jobs with great salaries for everyone with a college degree.
It wasn’t so long ago that a fry cook at a fast food restaurant could not just support himself and a pet in relative comfort but could even afford the mortgage on a one-bedroom pineapple under the sea.
In many countries the state’s lottery earnings are earmarked to support charities.
https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/life-changing/where-the-money-goes
It is especially heritage and culture work that profits from that because they often don’t get the same amount of public attention as other charities.
While I don’t play the lottery myself, I don’t think anyone that does so (at least in a country like this) is wasting their money.
Exactly.
I am totally in favor of social services, and wish we had more, but essentially the way we’re set up in this country right now, we are all subsidizing Wal~Mart and McDonalds and every other business whose full time employees qualify for SNAP benefits and housing and other benefits while the businesses themselves record profits. 
It’s yet another example of the great wealth redistribution from the “poor masses” to the oligarchs.
Now that somebody has won the jackpot, some advice from former winners…
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In the US, a lot of state lottery money goes to fund public education, which is treated much like a charity here.
