re: #297 doppelganglander

With 7 kids, HOPE is your best friend. Personally, I don’t have any moral qualms about the lottery. We might throw down $5 if it gets up over $100 million, but it’s not like that $5 is taking food out of my kid’s mouth.

In college I took a cartography class. We had access to all the GIS census, state data.

Using census tracks, which are pretty small I overlaid income data and lottery sales data.

The directness of the correlation between low income, and high lottery sales was amazingly high.

The average sales in those low income census tracks was something like $40 per sale.

The libertarian part of me could care less if people spend money on lottery.

Another part of me says it’s taking advantage of those who can least afford it.