I feel that it's just another way of 'taxing' poor people and it's addictive too.
Lotteries are very popular, here in Portugal. People practically buy tickets with their beer ( while having a beer or wine, in the bar ).
I also learnt that buying lottery tickets strengthens your 'scarcity' mindset as you clearly don't believe that you can get rich/ create abundance by yourself.
Yeah, there are many things wrong with the whole shebang and it is marketed to appeal to those what if it is me feelings.
But a tax on the poor is what it is as they are the ones funneling all their spare cash into tickets for it. I told my brother who was moaning about being skint that he would be loaded if he stopped spending £20 on lotto tickets every week and sometimes more!
Although next time I am having a beer in the sun I might buy a scratchcard and see what the gambly gambly drinky drink life is like! lol