YOU would hate my states lotto sys! Itās one of the most profitable ones in the US! 
Iām not sure why you feel compelled to brag about how your state extracts money from gambling addicts instead of working for the benefit of its citizens, but I guess everyone has to find something to be proud of.
It can do both. Those are not mutually exclusive.
Nice try at twisting my words.
They absolutely are mutually exclusive. Exploiting gambling addicts is working against the benefit of the citizens. Bragging about how profitable your stateās lottery is like bragging about how successful you are at selling heroin to children.
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ā¦ No itās not. Thatās a very bad analogy. Wanna try again?
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Not liking the moral consequences of running a lottery does not make it a bad analogy. The state is making money by selling an addictive product to people who are vulnerable to addiction. Perhaps you have forgotten that, unlike in EVE, in the real world youāre not supposed to be a sociopath and the state is supposed to work for the benefit of its citizens and not exploit them for profit?
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The parrots can only repeat themselves. Iām going to have to start using crackers for parrots instead of kibble for trolls.
Anyway, can we end the tangent about sociopaths bragging about how much harm their government causes and get back to laughing at the idiots why try to āscamā people in EVE by buying their own lottery tickets?
Polly want a cracker?
Do you ever have anything constructive to post, or are you just doing your best to provide an example of why we need to legalize post-birth abortion?
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Do you?
Imagine being THIS insecure because someone on the internet playing a video game has some more fake video game currency than you. Wow man.
Merin? What the heck? Youāve kind of gone over the deep end comparing government-run lotteries to distributing heroin to children.
By far everyone who buys into any sort of lottery / raffle irl is not a gambling addict and it is worth emphasizing that buying into a lottery / raffle does not in itself mean that person is a gambling addict.
Itās the same with this hypernet stuff in EvE.
One can not like it and speculate on what effect it may or may not have on the EvEworld. Fine, we have that rightā¦and the choice whether we participate in the hypernet thing at allā¦but letās not get crazyā¦
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To lateā¦
No, itās not just gambling addicts but itās still exploiting its victims. Buying a lottery ticket is an inherently stupid act, so lottery tickets primarily go to three groups of people:
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Gambling addicts who canāt stop buying even as their addiction destroys them.
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Poor people who are desperate for any hope of money, even if they know the odds are against them.
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People whose education has been lacking and who donāt understand that buying a lottery ticket is stupid, which tends to have significant overlap with the second group.
Lotteries would not be profitable if the only sold occasional tickets to people who can easily afford it. You need to get people buying lots of tickets and that means exploiting vulnerable groups for profit.
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See? I tried to warn you! 
Look, we get it, your family tree has circles instead of branches. Could you stop posting now?
Wow, and thatās the best you can do? I expected more for the crackers and kibble I feed you. Sadā¦ 
Edit; Hereās an award for just showing up.
Merin actually did research.
Lotteries are Doing More Damage to Those Who Can Least Afford It
As income inequality widens, the lowest-income households in the U.S. spend the most on tickets.
Americans spend tens of billions of dollars on government-run lotteries each year. But as income inequality widens, low-earning households spend a disproportionate amount of money on lottery tickets, according to a new study.The lowest-income households in the U.S. on average spend $412 annually on lottery tickets, which is nearly four times the $105 a year spent by the highest-earning households, according to a study released on Wednesday by Bankrate.com. And almost 3 in 10 Americans in the lowest income bracket play the lottery once a week, compared with nearly 2 in 10 who earn more than that.
Sad thing really.