When a person buys a lottery ticket, what are they purchasing?
A. It really depends on who they are. Some folks like to gamble and others a little bit here and there. We see a lot of offices, where employees pool their money and buy lots of tickets. As with all lottery employees, I’m prohibited from playing here, but on the occasion when my wife and I were in Rhode Island, we’d buy tickets and on the drive home, we’d speculate as to what we’d do with the money. For me, that’s the fun of it. Q. And there is no responsibility. I understand that it can ruin some people. A. I’ve sat with a single woman who just won a cash payout of $174 million. I told her this is a life-changing event. You have to move. It’s free money and people will expect to get it from you. No one is born knowing how to deal with that kind of money. I said listen, you have an orchard now. Live off of what it produces; do not down the trees for firewood. Q. Doesn’t the lottery promote the idea that success is a chance; not about hard work and the slow accumulation of wealth? A. We
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