How often do you buy a lottery ticket? What are the positives and negatives of Powerball and MegaMillions?

I play the big lotteries about once a month or so but sometimes more. I will only buy a ticket when the jackpot is really big (over 100 million) and will only buy one ticket for each lottery, I will not be caught up in the madness of buying hundreds of tickets or even 20 or 30 tickets at a time. The big lotteries have their goods and bads because one one hand someone eventually has to win and their life will be forever changed, some for good, some others for bad, but I think that as many people benefit from winning the lottery and actually lose out on life after winning the lottery.

One of the bad effects of the lotteries have on some people, especially the BIG jackpot multi-state lotteries like Powerball and MegaMillions, is the fever they cause, not the flu or a cold, but the euphoric "what if I win" near panic level fever that causes people to buy more tickets than they can afford or to even borrow money they do not have in order to buy more tickets. Sometime the bad effects of the lottery outweigh the good when collectively measured against the singular winners.. they are so many more losers than winners and some of those losers REALLY lost. Scratch tickets do this to though.

I see people scratching away feverishly at the counter where they bought the tickets hoping to grab some quick cash and even if they do win 20 or 30 dollars they turn right around and buy more tickets with the winnings. So big lotteries and small both have upsides and downsides and only when they are played as "entertainment" are they really performing to their intended function, it is when the inevitable addictive behavior of some gamblers kicks in and they start to play irresponsibly that the negative effects of the lottery become evident... even as losing happen so much more often than winning the big losers that did play irresponsibly and maybe did lose the grocery money on scratch tickets or other lotteries these stories of loss are rarely heard outside of the household they effect. Most I have ever won?

$450 on a scratch ticket, $7.00 on a Powerball ticket. (3 numbers).

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