[bruce511]

I know "fairness" is a virtue we teach to children, but honestly there is nothing fair about any part of life.

Where you are born, what ethnicity you are, how rich your parents are, how healthy, athletic, brainy, beautiful you are, what you eat, how you live, nothing in any part of your life is "fair".

So sure, play the lottery if you like, but don't pretend it's fair. Indeed the unfairness of the winning is entirely the point of it.

Of course if you are playing the lottery and dreaming of a better life, you already know how unfair life really is.

[unethical_ban]

It is not an inevitability that a lottery system will be rigged to effectively guarantee a wealthy group gets the jackpot and profits.

[bruce511]

I didn't say it was rigged, I said it wasn't fair.

[rufus_foreman]

>> I know "fairness" is a virtue we teach to children, but honestly there is nothing fair about any part of life

My parents did not teach me that fairness was a virtue. They taught me that "life's not fair". With the unspoken addendum of "deal with it".

I guess I won the lottery in that respect.