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Gambling in general is a loser's game, but the games people TYPICALLY play in gambling isn't generational wealth.

What makes the lottery slightly different is "YOLO": yeah on average it is not a good play, but someone presumably wins, and for their one shot in life it gets transformed with generational wealth.

That is: go big or go home.

... well, except that most lottery winners lose it all, but that's a different issue.

To emphasize, I'm not advocating playing the lottery, just that odds don't really account for the biological reality of only getting one life to live.