No Powerball winner; jackpot goes to record $425M

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16. Okay, here you go

it is fucking obscene.

For myself, I would rather see 300 people win $1,000,000 than ONE person win $300 million.

When I played powerball twice a week, my own hope was to win $100,000. If I won that, I would give two weeks notice at my job and be a free man - at least for a while. There used to be 7 or 8 of those $100,000 winners per drawing.

Then they increased the amount of numbers they use - to make the jackpots bigger. Well, in doing so, they reduced the amount of smaller winners. Now fewer people are winning $5,000 and $100,000.

I find it bizarre that people will buy a ticket to win $300 million, but not to win $10 million. As if $10 million is somehow peanuts. "Meh, the jackpot is ONLY $10,000,000, why bother?" Of course, when the jackpot gets bigger, then powerball inc. gets more free advertising as the big jackpot becomes "news".

The powerball is like a microcosm of the American economy. Fewer and bigger winners, and more losers.

And, of course, the powerball winner gets super-rich without doing one stitch of useful work.

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