[VIDEO] iDubbbz Complains - DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOTTERY, LOSER
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https://youtu.be/3WYHtQprLaA
I remember a couple of months back I remember reading a news article here about the big lottery in the US and I was completely baffled at the number of Facepunchers that confirmed they were going to buy a ticket.
Why...
Scottish Nationalists literally funded the majority of the Scottish referendum campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/11/euromillions-lottery-winners-colin-chris-weir-donate-bulk-yes-scotland-pro-independence-campaign
Because it costs like $2 and is fun? It's something to shoot the shit about with your friends and talk about how you bought a ticket for the biggest jackpot ever. Plus in the US lottery funds are used to pay for things like state scholarships and roads (although they are misappropriated a lot like most govt. funds). It's only a problem if you can't stop, and it's not like people are buying tickets with the expectation of actually winning...
Did you watch the video, by any chance?
The video is mostly ramming the dumb people who play semi-regularly. The big crowds that go out when it reaches a billion are mostly just people who want to participate in the hysteria.
That's the fun of it. Not the idea of winning.
To sum it up, a man who makes up to half a million a year moans about how people spend $200 a year
I don't care for the lottery myself, but you a grossly misinterpreting the video. Also how much he makes has nothing to do with it.
I mean I literally just reworded the title but okay
He's doing it for their benefit, you dolt.
I mean the lottery is pretty irresponsible financially (assuming you play all the time of course, every so often is another matter) but I would not take anything iDubbbz produces too seriously. The dude is very much an entertainer.
Dunno why people are getting so jazzed up.
idk how it is in the other parts of the world but most lottos in Australia also offer and fund grants for different community services aside from winnings.
I really do not think he is trying to approach the subject in a serious manner here. He is doing stuff to entertain and be amusing here by poking fun at something.
I know that you can present a definite opinion in an amusing way and all that but I really do not think that is what is going on here.
Entertainers can be really informative though. I've learnt more from John Oliver than news organisations, to be honest.
Yeah that was bad grammar on my part, sorry (my English has gone to shit recently and I have no idea why). I do generally find iDubbbz to be entertaining, but what I meant here is that I think he is using the lottery as a vehicle for comedy rather than using comedy as part of a serious argument. Either way I thought it was p. good.
I don't know why you think I am discrediting this video though, I liked it. Please let me know if something in my writing made you think that because, honestly, I need to work on that crap.
No problem. I guess I just misconstrued what your implication was.
In terms of your writing - it's fine, honestly - I was just a bit confused by it, but we all make mistakes occasionally!
If you spend $200 on the lottery (especially if you're poor), you're doing yourself a disservice. Buy something useful instead or save the money. Doesn't matter how much money iDubbbz is making when he's right, I honestly don't understand how you think that's an argument at all.
It's paramud. At this point I'm surprised they even put in the effort to type up a post at all.
Playing the lottery is one thing
but when you're not on good financial grounds and you're calling it an 'investment' after you spend hundreds on it you're a true dumbfuck and have a serious gambling addiction.
I think you underestimate the number of people that know they're literally throwing away that money.
I was never into gambling anyway, but I do entertain the idea of winning a lottery on my first try.
I'm just waiting for the right moment, some divine sign, a gut-feeling or otherwise to buy that winning ticket and then never buy another ticket. Totally not being stupid here, unlike all those other people who buy multiple tickets throughout their lives.
Considering the shit some people regularly spend $200 on in a month I'm perfectly fine with someone throwing away that money in a year on an incredibly small possibility of huge financial return. There are far worse things to spend your money on.
idk man at least crack cocaine gives me a good couple days worth of productivity
Someone in the comments mentioned that the UK lottery has to publish the win/loss chance as it's a form of gambling.The Euromillions, one of the biggest lotteries has odds of 139,838,160 to 1 to win. You're never going to win that. And it only gets worse as the number of people taking part increases as you'll end up splitting the pot.
I've only ever taken part in the National Lottery over here once, on my 18th birthday. As a little joking side present my family has always bought the birthday boy/ girl a single lottery ticket, as they're now legally allowed to gamble. Unsurprisingly nobody has ever won anything more than £10
Let's stop sugarcoating the odds of winning here. "Small possibility" is being misleading. In practical terms, on a scale the average human can understand no it's actually IMPOSSIBLE to win a multi-million lottery. People aren't machines and don't think like statisticians or mathematicians in their everyday lives.
I agree, if only I had put another adjective in there to describe how incredibly small the possibilities are. Damn my lack of foresight.
"Incredibly small" is STILL misleading.
If it was impossible, there'd never be any winners. Don't get me wrong, I agree with your general point. The lottery is by far the worst and lowest form of gambling, sacrificing odds of winning for ease of playing to such a massive amount that it's not really worth it, but you're being pedantic and you're not even being pedantic correctly because you're insisting on using terms that are definitively wrong.
Speaking of the topic at hand in a more serious, yet obviously opinionated idea...
I don't like the lottery.
The idea of ever playing and most likely not winning anything whatsoever is garbage to me. I feel the same about gambling and casinos (the gambling part) but that's another matter.
Despite that...
There are those "how to get rich" videos that say a whole lot of bulshit as if you were obviously gonna get rich if you followed every step to the utmost of care, which that alone pisses me off because it assumes you need to work your ass OFF and constantly be in self growth in order to reach anything meaningful and if you so ever procrastinate you'll be a lazy good for nothing who will ammount to nothing.
And these videos claim lottery tickets are an "idiot tax" because people spend that money on it instead of saving or spending in something constructive.
In a way, kind of yes?, but that exageration kind of pisses me off, because unless you're spending thousands of dollars in scratchers each year, that isn't really gonna make a huge dent in your wallet.
Lol it is still impossible. Congrats on the one person who beat the trillion or so odds though.
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