It honestly blows my mind when people can't comprehend why the lottery. I don't think I know a single person whose bought a ticket sure it was the winner. You buy it cause that little hope brightens up your day and allows you fantasize. Yet still, people will try to tout their "intellectual" superiority because they they think that everybody buying tickets are just idiots who don't understand statistic, while ironically not understanding what actually brings people back to buy another ticket.
I think that may be a small driver, but I've never seen a person (not ironically) say "Aww, somebody won, I should've bought a ticket so I could've won."
It honestly blows my mind when people can't comprehend why the lottery. I don't think I know a single person whose bought a ticket sure it was the winner. You buy it cause that little hope brightens up your day and allows you fantasize. Yet still, people will try to tout their "intellectual" superiority because they they think that everybody buying tickets are just idiots who don't understand statistic, while ironically not understanding what actually brings people back to buy another ticket.
Fear of missing out?
I think that may be a small driver, but I've never seen a person (not ironically) say "Aww, somebody won, I should've bought a ticket so I could've won."