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Serious question: Why don't I ever see inner-city black people win these things? Why senior citizens all the time?

I can't stop into an inner-city gas station without waiting behind six people meticulously picking numbers.

And I'm not racist at all. It's, obviously, a poverty thing.

 

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It depends on the bottle LTL. Alas, the four-figure bottles are usually the old ones, and no matter how carefully they're kept, a certain percentage of them go bad.
You know, you can waste $20 million easily and wind up broke again. That's almost impossible to do with $500 million unless you sink it in some blue-sky no-hope investment. A newspaper, say. And even then, if you sell at a 80 percent loss (estimated loss if the Times sells the Globe), you still have $100 million.
PS: Dick, white, black or anything else, the demos show that gambling is an old people's vice. It's just probabilities that makes those senior citizens the winner. The last big Powerball payout of a couple hundred mil was one by an African American woman from Rhode Island. She was in her 70s at least judging from her pictures on TV.

 

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How do you know inner-city black people aren't winning?

 

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Things I would get ...

-- House on a hill.
-- Living room with a plastic lion from Mexico in it.
-- Large 24-seat dining table in a dining room with original paintings by Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
-- Rotating bed with pink chiffon and zebra stripes.
-- Bathtub shaped like a clam.
-- Office with orange-and-white stripes.
-- All-red billiard room with a giant stuffed camel.



-- Disco room with my own disco dancers.
-- Party room with fancy friends.
-- Big backyard with Grecian statues, S-shaped hedges and three swimming pools.
-- Also, a tennis court with a wine dispenser.

 

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Oh, I am aware. I'm eating healthier and going to the gym 3-4 times a week. Having $500 mil to afford better health care would just expedite things.

 

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Nope, you definitely don't need to win a $500m lottery to do so, but the amount of free time winning a $500m lottery creates certainly speeds up the process.

 

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My teenager told me I can't quit work if I win $10 million as part of the office pool.

He said that while that's enough money for my lifetime, it's not enough for his.

 

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Just riffing on what people say here and personal, casual observation: It seems like it's usually older white people on the news for winning.

 

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True. But with that kind of cash, I wouldn't be in the office 50 hours per week and could be a de facto professional cyclist. Or hiker. Or kayaker.

 

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Maybe it says more about the news and how it covers people than who's actually winning.

 

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And I wouldn't be eating hamburgers in the car at 11 p.m. after a shift or pigging out at dinner because an assignment made me miss lunch.

I could hire a personal trainer and have a regular time to work out.