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As for the last part, you have a better attitude than I do. I think I would be kicking rocks down the street for awhile if I knew that a billion fricken dollars was so close to me, I just went to the wrong store at the wrong time, or right store, wrong time...
Someone recently won $1 million on a ticket bought at my neighborhood grocery store. Sadly, it wasn't me.
I don't know anyone who won a large lottery jackpot, but I do know someone who inherited what is now $500 million or so. To put it simply, he's miserable.
A guy that was a grade ahead of me in school (really small school) won nearly 100 million (perhaps cleared $40M?). I never knew him but we passed by each other every day and had mutual friends. What's weird is that he priviously won two other big prizes of ~30k and ~5k. I'm guessing he was one of those people that spent a ton of money on lottery tickets...maybe one of those 1 in 250 million where it paid off.
Oh and believe it or not...the guy is now an assistant football coach at the high school (small working class town). Don't these lotto winners usually try to disappear? I guess he's taking it head on. Maybe after a few years now people still know he's the richest person in town, but if they also know he's not giving loans, life gets somewhat back to normal. The only thing I might worry about is someone getting the bright idea to rob me, but maybe his house is heavily secured and he'd rather live without fear.
Obviously, this new disease called affluenza can be deadly !
Many people have succumbed to this consumer epidemic of the pursuit of more and more to fulfill the voids in their life!
Quote: Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. It is thought to have been first used in 1954[1] but it gained legs as a concept with a 1997 PBS documentary of the same name [2] and the subsequent book, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (2001, revised in 2005, 2014). These works define affluenza as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more."
As nice as it might be to win the lottery, I hate that my state is not an anonymous state. I would be scared having my name (easily identifiable, not a Smith or Jones) and face everywhere.
The other day my sister's neighbor was going through the previous winners and they found the neighbor next to them had one a million dollars on a scratch off. He's a nice guy and doesn't make much, so I was glad he won. He decided to take payments and I think he's getting something like 31K/year. It makes sense, because you can't even buy a house around here if you took the lump sum of a million.
As nice as it might be to win the lottery, I hate that my state is not an anonymous state. I would be scared having my name (easily identifiable, not a Smith or Jones) and face everywhere.
The other day my sister's neighbor was going through the previous winners and they found the neighbor next to them had one a million dollars on a scratch off. He's a nice guy and doesn't make much, so I was glad he won. He decided to take payments and I think he's getting something like 31K/year. It makes sense, because you can't even buy a house around here if you took the lump sum of a million.
Can't you choose to remain anonymous? I don't see how you can be forced to reveal yourself.
Can't you choose to remain anonymous? I don't see how you can be forced to reveal yourself.
Not usually. It depends on your state. I live in Kansas and we can remain anonymous. In states where you cannot remain anonymous, I am guessing when you buy a ticket you are giving your implied consent to have your name publicized.
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