Yostivanich

The study neatly illu­mi­nates the sad pos­i­tive feed­back loop of lot­ter­ies. The games nat­u­rally appeal to poor peo­ple, which causes them to spend dis­pro­por­tion­ate amounts of their income on lot­ter­ies, which helps keep them poor, which keeps them buy­ing tick­ets. The sad­dest part is that these destruc­tive games are run by the government.

via Lot­ter­ies – The Frontal Cor­tex. A lot­tery is quite pos­si­bly one of the stu­pid­est things to spend money on.