2007-03-09 17:58:37 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
cheer up there is always next week
2007-03-09 18:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's call a lottery, the lottery makes money by people buying tickets, the more they buy the higher the jackpot gets, the amount of people who buy tickets for the lottery is always higher then the amount of money in the jackpot. So to answer your question is because people are willing to take the chance to win the lottery. and not willing to spend their money to help others. basically.
Mainly because if you start helping people who never work, then they really never will get a job. bur really when was the last time you gave money to someone. who had a sign that said *I'm hungry, i need money to eat" probably never, which is not bad but if you do decide to help a man who has a sign like that buy him or her a burger or a McDonald's meals, because people rather give a dollar then a meal because is cheaper, the man with the sign ends up with way more money then he needs to buy three meals, which supports the reason why he never gets a job, because with the begging they can support their alcohol habit or drug habit.
NOTE lotteries support alot of education and city maintance and stuff like that.
so there is good in it.
2007-03-10 02:09:01 · answer #2 · answered by ybzno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How much do you think each person would get if they split the mega millions equally among us all? Not even a dollar. There are 300 million of us, and Uncle Sam wants his cut. The idea sounds good if you don't think about it.
2007-03-10 02:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by pshdsa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The largest jackpot ever won is just a drop in the bucket when spread over the masses.
2007-03-10 02:07:45 · answer #4 · answered by OOGLY 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed
2007-03-10 02:01:08 · answer #5 · answered by letigutierrez77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you have people more willing to put their money on a pipe dream than to actually put it towards someone that is less fortunate.
2007-03-10 02:05:46 · answer #6 · answered by zianneaaliyah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If everyone had a dollar . . .
Whoever won it would be millions (or would that be billions?) of dollars in debt and we'd all just have a dollar.
2007-03-10 02:02:00 · answer #7 · answered by Laurel W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've often wondered the answer to this question! glad i'm not alone. sadly most of the time people who win it are greedy with it and no good comes of it.
2007-03-10 02:03:19 · answer #8 · answered by butter_cream1981 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats the whole point in gambling. If you win you are lucky. If you don't play, you can't win.
2007-03-10 02:01:37 · answer #9 · answered by B aka PE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the government should answer that.
2007-03-10 02:00:57 · answer #10 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋