You're romanticizing, sadly. Every time I see someone scratching off numbers, I see a twisted industry exploiting human hopefulness and naivety. Dreaming costs nothing.

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When I see office workers walking off to the dreamer highrise offices in the sky, I enviously dream of being that worker in the sky, with all those dreams of grandeur.

Dreaming does cost nothing.

Scratch offs are a different beast than big games like the PowerBall

Gambling addiction is such a crippling disease. There should be accredited gambling laws so people can't gamble what they don't have.