>spend nearly all this year's trust fund money on lottery

you arent gonna win the lottery you jackass my grandmas been trying for 30 years

>>39313957
Thats not how probability works but you're still right

>>39313913
>since lottery is literally my only hope for the future

i would have killed myself already if it wasnt for the 1 in 17 million chance i win the lottery jackpot. people win all the time. its not impossible though highly unlikely.

>old fuck wins mega millions
>middle aged bitch from mass wins the powerball
why is it always some stupid faggot that wins it?

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>>39314375
In Cali I have the Super Lotto, which at low jackpots would be like getting a comfy passive income for 30 years, at 1/44m odds, and the Fantasy 5, which is usually $70k-450k, at 1/500000 odds. The last one is very appealing since it looks like I have a realistic chance of winning. I'm sick of the national lotteries though, and once the Mega Millions is worsened again in October, rarely ever again would I play it.

>>39314655
Wealth is wasted on the rich

>>39314768
>$70k-450k, at 1/500000 odds.

id be happy just winning a million dollars. id put it in shares and live off the dividends. do you fantasize about winning before checking your tickets, imagining all the things youd spend the winning on?

>>39313913
Apply for a job in the nearest downtown area. The stores there are always hiring and you have better chances.

>>39313913
even if you won the lottery you would end up poor again in a few years

why? because you are retarded and you suck with managing money, you will be poor forever no matter how many lotteries you win

start daytrading crypto dumbass, it's not anywhere close to too late

>>>>biz

>>39314996
fuck I can't believe I still don't know how to link to a board

>>>>biz>>>>

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>>39315013
OH SHIT WAIT

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>>39315013
maybe try:

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>>39313913
>trust fund
>Buys lotto tickets.
Were you dropped as a kid?
Also how much do you get from the trust fund? I bet it is more than a lot of /robots/ make working

>>39314375
> people win all the time
you dont know how many tickets some of these people buy though.

I wouldn't be surprised if some really desperate guy was dumping $1,000 a month on lotto tickets

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>>39314878
>do you fantasize about winning before checking your tickets, imagining all the things youd spend the winning on?

Psychologists actually agree that the positive feelings of hope and optimism you get from holding lottery draw tickets from the time of purchase until you check the winning numbers is actually of great benefit, and this is why I say I'll continue to buy 3 tickets a day, Super Lotto on Wednesday and Saturday, and Fantasy 5 most other days.

I fantasize about being able to live in peace and comfort, have unlimited food budget, and afford to travel and drive- all this without "working" like a slave just to exist and get to enjoy them a few hours a day and on weekends. I used to daydream about more luxurious things, but giving up on winning the big lotteries and just playing state games, this is what keeps me going. Also I make lists in my head like the 10 purchases I would make immediately after I won, various small, yet expensive comforts that I held off on since I'd rather spend the money on lottery tickets than get HD headphones and a new bed, for example.

>>39314909
That doesn't work because I have legit autism spectrum disorder, and the market is flooded with all sorts of meme degree holders, downsized white collar workers, legal and illegal immigrants, etc. Though coincidentially I did just apply to a part time job in downtown an hour ago, which would require an hour bus or train ride each way. A part time job could be tolerable around 3 days a week, but I still hold that suicide is better than full time employment. But I disregard such thoughts because its black-and-white thinking.

>>39314932
Thats one of many reasons why I'd take the annuity, no doubt about it.

>>39314996
>>39315013
>>39315025
>>39315033
I'm too chicken. Lottery is so simple, just go to 7-11, buy lottery tickets, try to win instant financial liberation.

>>39315053
I've been taking out around $10k a year, which they warned me is unsustainable amount

>>39315098
>$20 on tickets
Dude just become a wineo, the wine would be cheaper and make you happier

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>>39315098
>That doesn't work because I have legit autism spectrum disorder, and the market is flooded with all sorts of meme degree holders

Please shut the fuck up. If the job requires little to no experience (aka entry level) and high school diploma or higher, someone with s bachelor's degree and tons of experience won't get hired. They're overqualified. If the employer wanted degree holders with years of exp. they would have specified. Do a bit of research on employment.

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>>39315172
>>$20 on tickets
That was $26, and 2 years ago
>Dude just become a wineo, the wine would be cheaper and make you happier
>make you happier
Its not about happiness, I expect to be about the same amount of happy after I win the lottery, its about justifying mere existence and making it all worthwhile. Besides if I really want to I can easily elevate my happiness to the point of euphoria with meditation, but happiness doesn't buy money.

>>39315191
Doubtful anyone wants to hire me with several years f unemployment, and being NEET for 3 years since "graduating" community college.

Autism is serious business though. Last time I was employed and before I got diagnosed with autism, every other day we would get some kind of customer complaint that I was being rude, brash or insulting, just because I couldn't make facial expressions at people and use intonation.

>>39313913
Are you a character from Requiem for a Dream? you sound pathetic enough if that is your entire "plan"

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>>39315388
>you sound pathetic enough if that is your entire "plan"
Its simply the basis for any further plans. Until it happens, I'm mostly powerless to do much of anything to change my life- except try to win the lottery, and adapt a more stoic zen outlook on life as I pass the time, pretending I'm rich, envisioning it as already happened, destiny, but spending an unsustainable amount of money and no clear options other than "win the lottery or die trying"

>>39315463


dude, learn to invest, check out some books and figure it out.

>>39315491
you need at least a million dollars to make any sort of major money investing. Otherwise you're just gambling, or "saving for retirement" rather than liberating yourself from wage slavery.

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Fuck it, gonna buy 5 more super lotto tickets anyway, pray and meditate some more. Losing the Powerball, I have abandoned such lusts for extreme luxury. and am now finally ready to be humbly content with a modest passive income, for which I will be eternally greatful, while at the same time, still needing to do stuff with my life, but at last empowered to do so, to explore and cultivate my many talents, only possible when I am truly free, with both time and money to optimize my human existence.

I am not Elliot. While we may have shared the same strain of autism, and overwhelming passion for winning the lottery, I merely desire a peaceful, humble, resourceful existence, I don't hate anyone, and am ready to cope with lack of intimacy, now and forever if need be.

/streamofconsciousness

>>39315509


you dont, you do need to get off your ass and research it , which most people cant do cause they sit there and say

muh you cant invest unless you have a million dollars.

if you had put like 5 grand in crypto stuff, the decent coins, back in 2015, today you'd have about a million dollars.

you could put 5 grand in the lotto and get zero.

>>39315463
>stoic zen outlook
>pretending to be rich

Fraud.

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>>39316175
I explained I was too chicken to get into crypto, since there are all sorts of surprise fees and technical issues, also that its a virtual asset that could be deemed worthless or banned at any time. I definitely would have though if they had an app like robinhood for easy crypto trading

>>39316175
>you could put 5 grand in the lotto and get zero.
Definitely gonna get something back. The logistical issue would be actually going around to vending machines all over purchasing $5000 in lottery tickets. Makes is 10 per slip, but those jam in the machine when you redeem them, so at 5 each, thats 1000 pieces of this fucking paper.

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>>39316248
>get excited about winning the lottery
>find out I didn't
>be disappoint
>develop stoic zen outlook
>feel optimistic
>by more lottery tickets

the cycle repeats

>>39316287
even the lotto company is making fun of you.

you're paying for a fantasy.

What an awful idea dude. With any lottery, regardless of the odds, you can buy a ticket a day, from birth, every single day of your life and more than easily not win anything significant. And if your life goal is literally to luck into winning this... phew man you've got some problems. Ever consider you're addicted or something?

Why not start charting how much money you waste on these tickets just to show yourself how bad of a decision this is?

>>39316287
It's noch much of a development if it lasts for the lesser part of a week, is it?

>>39316253


it's like learning a skill or a trade dude, you're gonna have to spend a little time learning, but you can say you have a career, (trader)

if you want to blow your money blow your money. I was the same way when i was young and pissed off. I was like bah whatever, i will blow $50 on the lotto, and in the back of my mind thought i might win. And, when i was depressed id go drop $50 on lotto tickets.

I have no idea what i wasted on that horse shit but the most i ever got back was $5.

I also thought investing was bullshit. It was hard to learn cause i had to teach it to myself from scratch, but once i figured it out i made ok money.

>>39316349
What's so hard about opening up a vanguard account and reinvesting dividends?

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>>39316316
When faced with no other options, even a most irrational escape plan makes sense as long as it is in the realm of possibility. People win the lottery all the time, that could, and I believe will be me as long as I keep trying.

>>39316313
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HZ_jqXWptM

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>>39316344
Well this is one reason why I could never become an actual monk. Sooner or later, I desire things. Even if I win the Super Lotto today, I'd still buy Powerball tickets next time the jackpot goes over $300mil and hope I win. I stop fapping and looking at porn only to see a girl in a miniskirt outside, get a boner and start thinking about sex again. One thing for sure though is life would be a helluva lot more zen once I just stop worrying about money after winning the lottery.

>>39316349
>>39316360
Another important factor I recognize is that over the years I've become acutely aware of just how lazy I am. I will fuck up anything that requires constant maintenance and attention to technical detail

>>39316360
Something I would do after I win the lottery or at least the Fantasy 5.

What I need now is get-rich-quick, wealth management comes afterwards

>>39316473
nigga most of the time when you're buying stocks, you're holding for mid to long term.

1-2yrs plus. If you believe that you've bought an undervalued stock, who gives a shit about what some technical autists are saying about the day to day price movement.

no effort on your part, set it up so you get an alert if a stock hits a certain price, and sell.

you're not gonna get rich quick from it, but it sure beats playing the lotto.

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>>39316528
I learned all this for the investing for dummies book. Still the same conclusion- its for wealth management, protecting the value of your money against inflation, not turning $5k to $5 million unless you some super programmer analyst mathemetician genius, hacker, inside trader, etc.

>>39316583
ok, open up an options account and start taking leveraged positions if you wanna get rich quick.

or get even poorer quick

>>39313913
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD
Bitcoin is worth about $4300

>>39313913
Why the fuck would you spend so much money on lotto tickets? At least in casinos, you get odds that aren't 800,000,000,000:1.

For lotto, you buy one ticket. If it was meant to be, you win.

>>39316674
I remember it was hovering around $1k at new years, how the fuck has the value of this virtual internet money quadroupled?

>>39316674
There's also no reliable way to convert it from btc to real doolers.

>>39316743
>If it was meant to be, you win.
cuck

>>39316745
Probably GS execs using tactics that were made illegal on any regulated market 50 years ago.

its a bubble that's going to burst

>>39314768
>wealth is wasted on the rich
The fact that you squander money on ridiculous lottery tickets proves otherwise.

>>39313913

how about that lucky bitch who won 700,000,000 the other day. apparently she'll get taxed on it but still walk away with 500,000,000. if i was her i wouldnt have agreed to go on tv so everyone in the country knows about her win and will come begging for gibs from her.

>>39316761
Well you could be like OP and dump all your actual money on an effectively impossible chance to win and then complain that you have no money.

>>39314996
How do I start? I have no idea

>>39313913
Are you legitimately retarded OP? You want to know the secret about lotteries, namely what makes them profitable? If you were to play an /infinite/ amount of times you'd STILL lose money. More than likely by the time you get a winning ticket, you'd have spent more than that ticket is worth, Burning that money in a fire for heat in the winter is a better use of that money than the fucking lottery

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>>39316808
I contacted the lottery before and asked about the claiming process. At least in California, you don't have to do an interview or photo-op, and the lottery is only required to release your name and the circumstances of the win. They'll want to post a press release, but you can write a vague public statement without revealing any personal information, like.

>be me
>check lottery tickets Wednesday
>be disappoint
>buy more lotto tickets on Thursday
>win jackpot
>it was awesome
>I don't give money to people
>anyone asking will be told to politely fuck off

>>39313913
>playing the lottery
Literally throwing your money away like the dumb uneducated good goy cattle you are.

>pay $1 for the chance to win $1,000,000 with a 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 chance of winning
No one who understands probability and investment strategy would go play the fucking stupid lottery, unless it's for ENTERTAINMENT purposes, the thrill of it. If you're playing to win and stressing out over it, you're a sad idiot.

And it shows because it's usually the financially illiterate who are so desperate to win the lottery in the first place. Just can't help some retarded goyim.

>>39316835
Doesn't change the fact that people still do win the lottery. Statistics be damned, anomalies happen.

>>39316869
yeah, id put serious money on a bet that not one of us in this thread, buying 10 tickets a day for our whole life, will even break even with the lotto

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>>39316852
Its my only hope in life, so I must try.

>>39313913
Even if you got the money you wouldn't know what to do with it you dumb fuck. You have an addiction to gambling it's as simple as that. You're a jackass honestly, to let the lottery take over YOUR life like that? Fucking pathetic dude. You could have spent that money on traveling or education or investing. If you spend the little you have like this, giving you more money just means you'd waste more. It wouldn't fix any of your problems and you'd still have a gambling addiction. Snap out of it nigger.

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>>39316895
>Even if you got the money you wouldn't know what to do with it you dumb fuck. You have an addiction to gambling it's as simple as that.
Take the annuity, and then stop gambling. Simple as that. I don't have a gambling problem, I have a gambling solution!

Its not about money per se, but to get to live freely, and make life worth living. I can't even get a job, and l'd rather suicide than work 40+ hours a week for 30+ years, or even half that. If I could just live, eat and travel wherever I want for for free, that would be fine. But everything costs money, and life is a fucking nightmare of literal slavery to money, Fuck it all, liberate me from this shit, the only way out for me is to win the lottery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

>>39316891
I'm trying to explain this to you: lottery is not a way out. The chance of you winning the lottery is so abysmal as to be nonexistent. You have a much, much higher chance of success just making investments and educating yourself on financial responsibility. Hell, putting that dollar in a shoebox is a more sound use than buying a lotto ticket. Playing the lottery is throwing your money away, it is not a "hope," it is your detriment and you're only making things worse for yourself.

Why am I even preaching to irredeemably stupid goyim? You deserve poverty and misery for being a stubborn dipshit.

how fucking stupid do you have to be to buy lottery tickets? its literally like trowing money away. it isnt call the idiot tax for no reason. you WONT WIN

>>39316958
Everything you see around you is there due to others' labor. You do not deserve free shit by existing. That is the biggest backward thought in you anti-capitalists' small brains. If people didn't work you'd have nothing to eat and nowhere to travel. Wishing for free food, a free bed, free transportation is so incredibly entitled and disgusting it makes me sick.

The fact is, when you really look at them, each of these communist dingalings wants to live the way a monarch would live - do everything for free, everything is free and they can do what they want and have serfs give them stuff. Communists do NOT care about "the worker." They care about themselves and getting the workers to do shit for them so they can be lazy. People who are used to your rhetoric can see right through your shallow facade.

>>39317041
>you WONT WIN

but what about the people who do win?

>>39317029
>success
Define success

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>>39316958

> I don't have a gambling problem, I have a gambling solution!
Wow, no gambling addict ever said that before amirite folks


>but to get to live freely, and make life worth living
>and life is a fucking nightmare of literal slavery to money,
You have NO idea what life is. You can't appreciate what you have, what you have been given and live with it on your own? Money won't make you happy. As simple as that. You have been jewed into believing the lifestyle of the rich person is the only one worth pursueing and your little lottery scheme is a shortcut to the 'good life'. It isn't.

Don't you think companies that make lottery tickets know their shit when it comes to statistics, probability and math? They account for people like you. You can't win. Betting is also only really profitable if you bet online on some sort of odds that are wrongly calculated by the betting company (which you have to be an expert to identify and only happen so often). With the lottery the odds are always in their favour.

>I can't even get a job, and l'd rather suicide than work 40+ hours a week for 30+ years
You seem to have a problem believing that there are GOOD parts of life. Work is hard yes but do you see how many people go out and do it still? I agree that perhaps the conditions amd salary for the average worker aren't exactly ideal, but it's something we gotta live with.

>If I could just live, eat and travel wherever I want for for free, that would be fine.
All i read was
>I'm a little baby that wants everything handed to him

Sorry! You don't get that and I'm so glad you didn't and you should be too. This way you get to earn things you love on your own merits. Isn't that much better? IT MAKES FOR A MORE INTERESTING AND FULFILLED LIFE, ARE YOU BLIND TO THIS?

Look man, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're around 20 years old. I was dumb then too. But get a grip man Jesus Christ..

>>39317097
>but what about the people who do win?
Corporations trick people into giving them hard earned money so they could give out 1% of it to ( ( ( one lucky winner ) ) ) ? ?? Nobody wins mate.

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>>39317090
Well I'm just one individual trying to cope with existence until I die childless. Given that I'm too dumb/lazy/incompetent to "contribute to society" in any meaningful way, I see lottery winning as a way to acquire the means to live freely, taking what I want and need from civilization, and compensating them with this digital number of fiat currency they attribute exchange value to.

I have indeed though about this before, and modernity would not be possible without the system of capitalist slavery, cause most people would not want, or be able to put in the work required to sustain it. Not at all arguing that life was in any way better in primitive times, but living a simple life where every man could just take what he needs from nature, and any work he does is right there in front of him, and is for the purpose of immediate survival, that is an environment where everyone is more or less equal, and everyone contributes what they can.

Back to being me, an individual, stuck in modernity, the only way I can cope with living in such a shitty reality of money-slavery is to either find a way to have constant money without being a slave, or, less appealingly, a way to exist as a direct parasite off of other people or the government without needing much money, but with far less freedom. I heard of guys who buy an Airstream and have a friend who lets them park it next to their house plugged into the grid and plumbing, while they get EBT and autismbux. Thats one possibility for me which you could say is more realistic an aspiration than winning the lottery. But it requires to co-operation of other people, which I can never guarantee.

>>39317117
>Nobody wins mate

i remember a teacher i had once going on a rant about how the lottery "only makes poor people poorer". i didnt listen to the rest but that was the gist of it.

>>39317260
>capitalist
>slavery
Pick one you communist faggot

How the fuck were you raised if you think like this?

> I see lottery winning as a way to acquire the means to live freely
You live freely regardless of if you have a lot of money or not. You don't want to ACTUALLY be free

>>39317289
Same as welfare lad, that's basically what it is

>dying has a higher chance of happening than winning the lottery

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>>39317090
As far as what economic system is best- a mix of both capitalism and socialism. Imagine the govt providing everyone with aesthetically pleasing ecologically balanced "commie blocks" and providing basic necessities like food, utilities and use of public transport. But any more than that, they will need to work, and if someone wants to work, the government controls vast amounts of the economy. The benefits of capitalism is that competition encourages innovation and efficiency for the consumer, but the detriment to this is all of the workers who just can't compete. In a mixed capitalism/socialism system, anyone who wants to work can just be assigned work by the govt instead of needing to compete with hundreds of other applicants to flip burgers and win the approval of private business. This wouldn't stifle competition since firms still want to get rich and compete in the market, and it would allow for the greatest of human potential to be unleashed, since undoubtedly, people will be more productive and able to turn their creativity into action once they don't have to worry about where they will sleep or what they will eat- and are incentivised to put themselves out there in the freelancing world and gig economy if they want money for cars, hookers, booze, music, vacations or anything else.

>>39316958
All you know is how to talk a lot of shit OP, I can see how you aren't employed as you're generally useless, and instead of maybe changing yourself you choose to blame society? Cool. Good luck with that.

>>39317109
Also all of this.

>>39317326

yeah you are much more likely to be getting hit by lightening, eaten by a shark or killed in a car accident than winning the jackpot.

>Willing to buy lottery tickets
>Not willing to buy proven investments
What the fuck is wrong with you?

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>>39317109
>IT MAKES FOR A MORE INTERESTING AND FULFILLED LIFE, ARE YOU BLIND TO THIS?
I understand how people feel this way, but I don't concur with the sentiment since 'interesting' and fulfilled' are incredibly subjective- or you're still concerned with wanting other people to see you in that light. And also because I'm well aware of how incompetent I am to know that being a "self made man" or whatever the fuck you wanna call it is not possible, and all I really want is to just fuck off and do my own thing in life, but also have plenty of money to enjoy high quality of life.

>>39317303
>Pick one you communist faggot
Pick both yuppie scum

>>39317361
>changing yourself
I need money in order to do this in any measurable way

>>39313913
Are you the usual lottery anon?
I remember a week ago you were talking like you're actually quite happy with your life, and winning the lotto would only make you feel more secure about your future.

The dumb and poor will always be dumb a poor.

Proof: OP

>OP has a gambling problem
>thinks he's special
>is just like millions of morons who spend their paycheck on the lottery and booze

Pretty sad,

>>39313913
lottery is a tax on the stupid

>>39317492
No you don't, stop deluding yourself

>>39314307
If you knew how probably works you wouldn't play the lottery you fucking retard.

>>39313913
I worked as a promoter for a lottery special offer once and I can tell only the most retarded, uneducated trash people spend their money (probably benefits) on lottery tickets. I still dread the memory of interacting with those "people"

>>39316869
It's most likely electronically controlled. If no one ever won, no one would ever buy tickets.

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What a dumb piece of shit. Why wouldn't he do something productive with all that money instead paying fools' tax?