The companion article to this one is titled “Not Playing the Lottery is for Suckers,” in which lottery winners are interviewed regarding the obviously sound financial strategy of playing the lottery.
One of my pet peeves is when folks try to attain wisdom that they feel should apply to their own lives by listening to folks who have beaten the odds in some endeavor. In fact, it’s probably more valuable to listen to the volumes of folks who applied the same strategy as the “winners” but failed.
I’m no pro-expensive college guy, but Nassim Taleb would have a field day with this article.
