NorthofEngland
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A short time ago a British man won over £100 million on the Euro Lottery.
Overnight he went from a normal man earning £400 a week to being on the list of the UK's richest in the position just above David and Victoria Beckham.
Despite the fact that having £100 million really wouldn't change things much from having £10 million, when the prize rolls over to an insane amount more and more people buy more and more tickets. So it is certain that the prize will continue to increase.
It seems that we have all become desensitized to £2, £5, £25 million prizes and a larger and larger amount is necessary to get our attentions.
Personally an amount of £6 to £8 million would be all I would need to live the life I dream of. It would be enough for 3 or 4l luxury homes and a small yacht, several eye catching vehicles and takng lessons to achieve a pilots license.
But I do tend to buy more tickets when the prize is at £100 million or more. Even though I realize that such an amount would cause as many problems as it solved.
Social isolation being the most obvious. Being targeted by serious criminals another.
25 years ago a national news paper started the first £1 million prize and the idea of someone becoming an overnight millionaire was considered irresponsible, even dangerous.
Not long before that the usual prizes, on TV game shows, were dish washers and cutlery sets. If you were really lucky you could leave with a mid priced family car.
Considering the exponential increase in the value of prizes from 1974 to 2014. From the equivalent of about a years moderate earnings to amounts in the low eight digits, amounts that only the planets wealthiest 1% could hope to accumulate over several years.
What must one assume the future will hold?
Will a normal, average person become a multi-billionaire with the spin of a wheel?
And what does this situation say about the culture we live in?
Where schemes to 'get rich quick' and making money without earning it are not just tolerated, they're encouraged.
Gambling is available for anyone at any hour of the day, anywhere you happen to be.
Pay day loans and instant credit are available in similarly unlimited fashions.
And even though you have a higher chance of being gang raped by a flock of rabid alpaca's in the vestibule of a Greek Orthodox Cathedral than you have of winning a lottery draw
the inescapable truth is that PEOPLE DO WIN!
but only if they've bought the tickets play....
Overnight he went from a normal man earning £400 a week to being on the list of the UK's richest in the position just above David and Victoria Beckham.
Despite the fact that having £100 million really wouldn't change things much from having £10 million, when the prize rolls over to an insane amount more and more people buy more and more tickets. So it is certain that the prize will continue to increase.
It seems that we have all become desensitized to £2, £5, £25 million prizes and a larger and larger amount is necessary to get our attentions.
Personally an amount of £6 to £8 million would be all I would need to live the life I dream of. It would be enough for 3 or 4l luxury homes and a small yacht, several eye catching vehicles and takng lessons to achieve a pilots license.
But I do tend to buy more tickets when the prize is at £100 million or more. Even though I realize that such an amount would cause as many problems as it solved.
Social isolation being the most obvious. Being targeted by serious criminals another.
25 years ago a national news paper started the first £1 million prize and the idea of someone becoming an overnight millionaire was considered irresponsible, even dangerous.
Not long before that the usual prizes, on TV game shows, were dish washers and cutlery sets. If you were really lucky you could leave with a mid priced family car.
Considering the exponential increase in the value of prizes from 1974 to 2014. From the equivalent of about a years moderate earnings to amounts in the low eight digits, amounts that only the planets wealthiest 1% could hope to accumulate over several years.
What must one assume the future will hold?
Will a normal, average person become a multi-billionaire with the spin of a wheel?
And what does this situation say about the culture we live in?
Where schemes to 'get rich quick' and making money without earning it are not just tolerated, they're encouraged.
Gambling is available for anyone at any hour of the day, anywhere you happen to be.
Pay day loans and instant credit are available in similarly unlimited fashions.
And even though you have a higher chance of being gang raped by a flock of rabid alpaca's in the vestibule of a Greek Orthodox Cathedral than you have of winning a lottery draw
the inescapable truth is that PEOPLE DO WIN!
but only if they've bought the tickets play....
