[elipsey]

>> poor people waste their whole paychecks on lottery tickets and such all the time.

All of them, all the time? More than other people? Evidence?

[jimmaswell]

I didn't say all of them, "all the time" is an idiom, I didn't say more than other people, and if you want some evidence, hang around a gas station for ten minutes.

[dd36]

Or hopelessness looks for hope through the lottery. As opposed to the hopelessness being caused by the lottery.