Georgia Lottery Suckers Spend Most for Least

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Banjo, Mar 14, 2012.

  1. Banjo

    Banjo

  2. it's a bad bet. it's just a bad bet! :D
     
  3. Brass

    Brass

    Isn't Georgia a Tea Party stronghold? The party of the "better educated, higher-income 'real' Americans?"
     
  4. Huh? I didn't even think Bloomberg reported on news in Georgia. Learn sumpin knew everyday.
     
  5. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Yeah the but lottery proceeds go toward education. So shouldn't you approve?
     
  6. hey douche, do you trade? never se a trade or anything related out you? sup with that?\
    \you do know this site is about trades, and all w/o exception?
     
  7. Lucrum

    Lucrum

  8. Eight

    Eight

    hee hee, there are lots of pro-upper middle class tax funded benefits. How else could government grow to where it's budgets exceed half the GNP and the rich get richer while the poor and the middle class are struggling more and more every year? But don't give up hope, Obama and the party of the little guys have got your back.. no really, they care.. just ask them...
     
  9. I would like you to imagine a national coin-flipping contest. Let's assume we get 225 million Americans up tomorrow morning and we ask them all to wager a dollar. They go out in the morning at sunrise, and they all call the flip of a coin. If they call correctly, they win a dollar from those who called wrong. Each day the losers drop out, and on the subsequent day the stakes build as all previous winnings are put on the line. After ten flips on ten mornings, there will be approximately 220,000 people in the United States who have correctly called ten flips in a row. They each will have won a little over $1,000.

    Now this group will probably start getting a little puffed up about this, human nature being what it is. They may try to be modest, but at cocktail parties they will occasionally admit to attractive members of the opposite sex what their technique is, and what marvelous insights they bring to the field of flipping.

    Assuming that the winners are getting the appropriate rewards from the losers, in another ten days we will have 215 people who have successfully called their coin flips 20 times in a row and who, by this exercise, each have turned one dollar into a little over $1 million. $225 million would have been lost, $225 million would have been won.

    By then, this group will really lose their heads. They will probably write books on "How I turned a Dollar into a Million in Twenty Days Working Thirty Seconds a Morning." Worse yet, they'll probably start jetting around the country attending seminars on efficient coin-flipping and tackling skeptical professors with, " If it can't be done, why are there 215 of us?"

    By then some business school professor will probably be rude enough to bring up the fact that if 225 million orangutans had engaged in a similar exercise, the results would be much the same - 215 egotistical orangutans with 20 straight winning flips.

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    #10     Mar 15, 2012