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you win the lotto..then what? (Read 14286 times)

Started by Memo, January 24, 2018, 12:17:09 am
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#21  January 25, 2018, 07:07:04 pm
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The rational choice is to save the money or invest in stocks, real state or a small business.

When faced with the euphoria of winning the lottery and having seemingly endless cash at their disposal most people lose all rationality. Even people who could think clearly before winning waste their wealth in stupid shit. Lotto winners who don't end back in square one (if not dead or broken) a few year later are a statistical anomaly.

From what I have read it is 60/40 ; but then again, it depends on how much money is it considered "winning the lotto" as I and my family have won the lotto hundreds of times but it's hardly amounted to one month of salary 2 or 3 times then all the other times it's much less money.

My mother won the local lotto a couple of times too, but I was talking about high profile winners.

Like, the current Powerball jackpot is 92 million dollars and it's likely to grow much larger before anyone actually wins it. I really don't believe whoever wins it will be able to keep a cool head about it.
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#22  January 25, 2018, 10:09:13 pm
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Even tho I'd be comfortable living in an apt building paying rent
till I die I would buy me a a nice big yatch and sail that bitch around
the coast, It would have a bar, stripper pole, dance floor, arcade/bowling
alley and a nice BBQ area for the homies lol
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#23  January 26, 2018, 12:00:32 am
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i will create a new "lotto" using the money i won and live out of the gains of if xD how come no one ever did this                     
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#24  January 26, 2018, 12:58:36 am
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i will create a new "lotto" using the money i won and live out of the gains of if xD how come no one ever did this                     

It probably cost ALOT more than the winnings lol and it
probably has something to do with the state and regulations.
Good idea tho.
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#25  January 26, 2018, 01:12:51 am
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I would keep my winning a secrecy. Then i would invest in something so i wont go back to being broke. Other than that i would live my life normally and i would still keep my job like a smart person. More income the better.
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#26  January 26, 2018, 04:28:49 am
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The rational choice is to save the money or invest in stocks, real state or a small business.

When faced with the euphoria of winning the lottery and having seemingly endless cash at their disposal most people lose all rationality. Even people who could think clearly before winning waste their wealth in stupid shit. Lotto winners who don't end back in square one (if not dead or broken) a few year later are a statistical anomaly.

From what I have read it is 60/40 ; but then again, it depends on how much money is it considered "winning the lotto" as I and my family have won the lotto hundreds of times but it's hardly amounted to one month of salary 2 or 3 times then all the other times it's much less money.

My mother won the local lotto a couple of times too, but I was talking about high profile winners.

Like, the current Powerball jackpot is 92 million dollars and it's likely to grow much larger before anyone actually wins it. I really don't believe whoever wins it will be able to keep a cool head about it.

There's not a very clear line unless you mean only that lotto that only has first place winner and a lto of times not even that so a lot of money accumulates; there area lot of hundreds thosuandand even tens of thousands  lotto winners, that just pay their debts, travel a bit, buy a house/car, the save the rest of the money, while not even quitting their day job, with the most adventurous ones starting a busines of their own.
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#27  January 27, 2018, 11:09:49 am
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i would probably divide 50 mils or more to my poor relatives and family.
900 milion is alot of money. so i will retire from work, and live the rest of my life with someone who loves me in a nice country like france or italy.
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#28  January 27, 2018, 11:27:33 pm
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Probably disappear, or at least try to. A lot of rotten people tend to come out of the woodwork when someone gets money. There's no sense in allowing things like that to come to pass.

I'd pay my dues and get the hell out as soon as I possibly could. Probably move to some state nobody give a shit about, buy a small house (maybe with some bit of land), and spend the rest of my days there.
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#29  January 28, 2018, 04:48:59 pm
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What will I do with a billion dollars that (figuratively) suddenly appeared in front of me?

Well, first of all, I will keep it a secret while I get all of financial affairs straight. Taxes, debts, etc.

Then I will by myself a secret house with a secret car in someplace secret so no one will bother me in terms of financial matters.

Then I will become very wealthy secret investor.

Then, I will disappear. Never to be seen again except to pay to make MUGEN great once more, to be a patron and commissioner of the music and the arts (except for modern arts. Those can die in a fire), or to shitpost while sitting on a pile of Fuck You money.

You see, this is sometimes why I envy wealthy people like Notch. He has all of the money in the world with no strings attached, so he is untouchable to all who are his enemies.

I might expand on this a bit more when I have more time and thought.
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#30  January 28, 2018, 05:16:17 pm
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Blow it all on cool toys and shit.
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#31  February 04, 2018, 01:27:17 am
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Put it in the bank and pretend it never happened.