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There's a cost to winning the lottery. Everyone knows you won. In most states, at least. If I'm going to put up with the hassle of losing my privacy, dealing with stalkers, family members begging, friends begging, etc ... then I want it to be a really big win. Then I can give away a relatively large amount of it to my friends and family, maybe even enough to keep a few of them as friends, and buy sufficient protection and anonymity for myself and my family so we can stay safe.

$10M is going to be $5M in a lump sum, and maybe $3M after taxes. That's a sufficient amount to live a comfortable-but-not-exotic retirement for however long you live. You'll still have all the bad parts of winning a jackpot, but insufficient resources to really deal with it.