> At least the lottery doesn't care about your current circumstance and everyone has an equal (equally small) chance.
Not really true. If you have more money you can buy more tickets which leads to higher—or even certain—odds.
https://www.iflscience.com/how-a-man-won-the-lottery-14-time...
> If you have more money you can buy more tickets which leads to higher—or even certain—odds.
I don't think there are any lotteries with that feature. You can guarantee that you win, but you still won't have certain odds because the payout isn't guaranteed.
> I don't think there are any lotteries with that feature.
It’s in the link I posted.
Did you try reading the only other sentence in my comment?
No need to get upset. I replied earnestly, I thought you might’ve skipped it.
The point I was making is that with more money you increase your chances to win. The fact that you may have to split the winnings isn’t relevant, you still won. I was explicitly responding to the “the lottery doesn't care about your current circumstance and everyone has an equal (equally small) chance” remark.
> I replied earnestly, I thought you might’ve skipped it.
So... you didn't read the second sentence of my two-sentence comment? Or do you have some theory where "you can guarantee that you win" means it isn't possible to guarantee that you win?
> The point I was making is that with more money you increase your chances to win. The fact that you may have to split the winnings isn’t relevant, you still won.
And here, you're still wrong. You can guarantee that you "win" the lottery instead of "losing" it. But if you're going to be buying seven million lottery tickets, it matters quite a lot whether you end up buying seven million tickets at a dollar each and making $1.05 per, or buying seven million tickets at a dollar each and making $0.52 per or $0.35 per. Collecting a jackpot by losing five million dollars is not a "win" in any sense that's not internal to a lottery department, including the sense of people who like daydreaming about winning the lottery.
> I was explicitly responding to the “the lottery doesn't care about your current circumstance and everyone has an equal (equally small) chance” remark.
Note that everyone also has the same chance of buying out the lottery at a profit - it's not necessary to buy those tickets out of pocket, because you can do it with investor backing. The story in your link is the story of someone who bought out a lottery with investor backing. He's not alone; other people also buy out lotteries using money they didn't provide. This is one of the easiest investor pitches you can give.
It’s disconnected from reality to believe anyone can get investor money to buy this amount of lottery tickets. Most people, even if they realise the odds, wouldn’t even know where to start.
But you’ve already locked yourself into an incorrect preconceived notion of the original point (which is simply: “not everyone has an equal chance on the lottery, though on the surface that may look like the case”) and are for some reason getting angrier with each response, so I don’t think we’ll get anywhere here.