Sometimes people ask why I never gamble. To pay for college I worked at a gas station, and I'd see people I knew were making minimum wage come in and spend hundreds of dollars on (government) lottery tickets. It was just "scan, nope. scan, nope. scan, nope" -- burning money but sometimes they'd get a free ticket.
The scariest thing isn't just that it's addictive, it's that the people who can the least afford to be burning money on it are the ones who think it might be their ticket to financial security.
The scariest thing isn't just that it's addictive, it's that the people who can the least afford to be burning money on it are the ones who think it might be their ticket to financial security.
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