DittoDevolved comments on Burch's Law - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 March 2007 02:39AM

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Comment author: DittoDevolved 05 October 2016 09:40:15PM 0 points [-]

Never a good idea. Unless you win. Ask the recipient of $100m tax-free whether or not it was a good idea to buy a ticket.

I don't buy lottery tickets, but as much as the chance is so ridiculously small that you might as well burn the ticket as soon as you buy it, that doesn't stop people from winning.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 06 October 2016 01:54:18AM 1 point [-]

Lottery income is most definitely taxed, although this likely makes little difference to your point.

Comment author: DittoDevolved 06 October 2016 04:29:56PM 0 points [-]

In the UK it's tax free, anyway.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 07 October 2016 01:30:50AM 0 points [-]

Ok. Not in the USA.