The Lure of The Lottery

One of my favorite places to look for ideas is Google Trends. Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but there are a lot of results today for lotteries of one sort or another. Seems the Powerball had three winners of $800,000-not a bad return on an invest of a dollar or two. According to MarketWatch Powerball players spent $16,281,896 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night. Which means that somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 million people didn’t win $800,000. The desire to get something for nothing is a pretty strong one. Gambling has always…

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