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What would you do if you won the lottery? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The Powerball lottery is up to $1 billion tonight. If you won it, what would you do?

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[–] bluGill@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your odds of finding the winning ticket on the sidewalk about about the same as if you bought a ticket. I'm not sure if that changes the surprise level.

[–] InaudibleWhispers@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

I guess you're kind of right, in that they're both essentially 0. But the odds of winning the lottery are still ...millions? of times higher to win by buying one than finding a winning ticket on the street.

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