Greetings good citizen, yesterday's late start coupled with a to do list that would choke a horse led to no post. Today is action packed too but neglect loses you readers and you are all precious to me.
How 'bout that lottery? What does it say about society that when the pot gets high enough, EVERYBODY buys a ticket? SECONDLY what does it say about people that vote republican and when the situation presents itself, tell anyone that will listen that the lottery is a 'stupid tax'?
Not so 'stupid' now...is it?
Well, let's look at how this is going to shake out. For months NOBODY could hit the damn thing (Because they made the odds too long) so now, probably next drawing (because EVERYBODY is playing now!) it will go a dozen ways!
Bad enough it went up by the population of the nation in the two days since the previous drawing (REMEMBER: ONLY ONE of those $2 goes towards the jackpot, the other goes to the states...and towards 'admin'. You'd think every third citizen was a lottery agent!) Well, the day of it jumped by the number of citizens and half again!
With the uncannily accurate 'guess' that EVERYBODY will be holding at least ONE ticket for Tuesday's drawing. [thus are the projections that Tuesday's jackpot will be in excess of a billion and a half dollars.]
So, riddle me this...is it too late to make lottery winnings tax exempt?
Ironically come Wednesday morning only a handful of people are going to think that is a good idea, the rest will want their $50, $100, $1,000 back.
Yup and what does that tell you about society in general and money in particular?
Nothin', right?
How do you educate a species that is so easily hoodwinked? Being an opportunist is it's own reward.
That said our past gross mismanagement of 'physical assets' has resulted in billion dollar 'giveaways' that, ironically WON'T effect the economy.
Don't think I need to tell you that under A Simple Plan the lottery goes 'poof'.
Economics under ASP are considerably different...starting with a public that isn't DESPERATE for CASH!
That's what I see when I observe the 'frenzy' over a huge lottery jackpot.
Now let's compound that (angst) and speculate what will happen if someone (who needs it like a hole in the head) 'wins'?
Who do you suppose is buying all these tickets? The 'average' citizen can only spare, say $10 on lottery tickets and that's for the WEEK.
Remember Thursday's golf example? When people were using their houses as self-filling piggy banks (thanks to CDO's and the 'elimination of risk')
Golf became a popular leisure time pursuit BECAUSE of HELOC's once the 'free cash/disposable income' dried up golf died an ugly death...although our genius president owns a ton of golf courses...just like he USED TO OWN a bunch of Casinos...
See the 'similarities'? Both businesses rely of surplus income that NO LONGER EXISTS!
Once Billionaire replaced Millionaire it seems nobody noticed that 'disposable income' went 'poof'! Why? Because millionaires were a product of a 'local economy' that was wiped out by the 'consolidation of market share' that was the 'true goal' of 'Globalization'.
Globalization wasn't done FOR YOU, it was done TO YOU by the FREAKISHLY STUPID! [Who also happen to be freakishly GREEDY.]
So where were we? That's right, the lottery...and the masses so desperate for cash that riots might break out if 'fate' presents 'the wrong person' with a winning ticket. [People already suspect the lottery is rigged...and it doesn't help that there have been numerous prosecutions for people that were able to 'fix' the algorithms to provide them with the winning numbers ahead of the drawing.]
So it is we 'wallow' in a society where everything is 'rigged' against you.
What's the difference between playing the lottery and voting?
I don't know [actually I do and the answer is NONE, there isn't one because both are 'fixed'.]
Thanks once again for letting me slap you upside the head,
Gegner
How 'bout that lottery? What does it say about society that when the pot gets high enough, EVERYBODY buys a ticket? SECONDLY what does it say about people that vote republican and when the situation presents itself, tell anyone that will listen that the lottery is a 'stupid tax'?
Not so 'stupid' now...is it?
Well, let's look at how this is going to shake out. For months NOBODY could hit the damn thing (Because they made the odds too long) so now, probably next drawing (because EVERYBODY is playing now!) it will go a dozen ways!
Bad enough it went up by the population of the nation in the two days since the previous drawing (REMEMBER: ONLY ONE of those $2 goes towards the jackpot, the other goes to the states...and towards 'admin'. You'd think every third citizen was a lottery agent!) Well, the day of it jumped by the number of citizens and half again!
With the uncannily accurate 'guess' that EVERYBODY will be holding at least ONE ticket for Tuesday's drawing. [thus are the projections that Tuesday's jackpot will be in excess of a billion and a half dollars.]
So, riddle me this...is it too late to make lottery winnings tax exempt?
Ironically come Wednesday morning only a handful of people are going to think that is a good idea, the rest will want their $50, $100, $1,000 back.
Yup and what does that tell you about society in general and money in particular?
Nothin', right?
How do you educate a species that is so easily hoodwinked? Being an opportunist is it's own reward.
That said our past gross mismanagement of 'physical assets' has resulted in billion dollar 'giveaways' that, ironically WON'T effect the economy.
Don't think I need to tell you that under A Simple Plan the lottery goes 'poof'.
Economics under ASP are considerably different...starting with a public that isn't DESPERATE for CASH!
That's what I see when I observe the 'frenzy' over a huge lottery jackpot.
Now let's compound that (angst) and speculate what will happen if someone (who needs it like a hole in the head) 'wins'?
Who do you suppose is buying all these tickets? The 'average' citizen can only spare, say $10 on lottery tickets and that's for the WEEK.
Remember Thursday's golf example? When people were using their houses as self-filling piggy banks (thanks to CDO's and the 'elimination of risk')
Golf became a popular leisure time pursuit BECAUSE of HELOC's once the 'free cash/disposable income' dried up golf died an ugly death...although our genius president owns a ton of golf courses...just like he USED TO OWN a bunch of Casinos...
See the 'similarities'? Both businesses rely of surplus income that NO LONGER EXISTS!
Once Billionaire replaced Millionaire it seems nobody noticed that 'disposable income' went 'poof'! Why? Because millionaires were a product of a 'local economy' that was wiped out by the 'consolidation of market share' that was the 'true goal' of 'Globalization'.
Globalization wasn't done FOR YOU, it was done TO YOU by the FREAKISHLY STUPID! [Who also happen to be freakishly GREEDY.]
So where were we? That's right, the lottery...and the masses so desperate for cash that riots might break out if 'fate' presents 'the wrong person' with a winning ticket. [People already suspect the lottery is rigged...and it doesn't help that there have been numerous prosecutions for people that were able to 'fix' the algorithms to provide them with the winning numbers ahead of the drawing.]
So it is we 'wallow' in a society where everything is 'rigged' against you.
What's the difference between playing the lottery and voting?
I don't know [actually I do and the answer is NONE, there isn't one because both are 'fixed'.]
Thanks once again for letting me slap you upside the head,
Gegner
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