Reddit moment.
No, seriously.
Iâm trying to figure out if you truly believe that poor people are just too stupid to manage their money.
Because weâve all threatened and harassed people at some point, right? /sarcasm
Huh⌠I make 6 figures and I play the lotto.
Not saying Iâm rich by any stretch but I sure as hell ainât poor.
Itâs not a matter of stupidity. Itâs a matter have not having been educated to be smart with your money. Thereâs a reason why so many poor people who suddenly find themselves millionaires through the lotto end up filing for bankruptcy. Because they end up giving that money to friends, they end up buying a big house and lots of cars and everything they ever wanted.
Iâm going to assume you spend a negligible amount of money on it compared to poor people who spend half their paycheck even if you spend the same amount of money on the lotto. Still a bad investment considering your chances of winning are something like lower than being struck by lightning, but you have something else to rely on for stable income.
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I donât understand where you get your information.
My brother is poor. His kids (now adults) are poor. They donât spend a dime on the lotto.
My opinion is people that like to play the lotto play the lotto no matter if they are rich or poor.
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I didnât say all poor people play the lotto so your anecdote means nothing. Statistically poor people are more likely to play the lotto than those who are not. So, statistically, those who play more are more likely to win. Those who are more likely to be disadvantaged, have an addiction, etc, and more likely to make poor decisions with money when they finally do get it. Thatâs why you hear about so many people winning the lottery and the losing everything.
What statistics?
I found the resources pretty easily by doing a quick search for them. Let me go ahead and just publish a meta analysis of several different studies here on the WoW forums.
Yes please do.
If youâd be so kind, keep this page open. Donât go anywhere else, donât do anything else. Keep pressing the refresh page button. You certainly wonât want to miss it.
So it doesnât exist. Got it.
Studies exist on this subject, you can go and look at them. Iâm not just going to spend my time looking up statistics that I just found that you can do so as well.
Look up what a scarcity mindset is as well, if you want more insight into why poor people tend to make bad decisions with their money.
Even if I were to go get the studies for you, youâd make no effort to read them yourself just like youâre making no effort to go and look for them now. It would just be a pointless errand.
Thatâs not how it works. You donât write a paper then say âI donât have to provide sources, go look them up yourselves.â
You made a statement as fact. I asked you twice where youâre getting your information and you dodged the request.
If you want me to be your research assistant and look up your sources, pay me. If you donât want to do that then Iâm going to continue to think youâre full of 
and every thing youâre claiming is a fib.
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Not sure where you live, but this is not my experience.
I live with 2 twentysomethings right now. And while my kids may have their flaws, they are worlds smarter than most of the idiots out on the street right now. And Iâm not just saying that because Iâm their parent either.
Living out on your own in your twenties does NOT make you any less naive, and does not make you any more âworldlyâ. That comes with experience, which most twentysomethings simply donât have. Hell, Iâm pushing 50 and I still occasionally feel like Iâve lived in a bubble when it comes to certain things.
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Iâm not writing a paper. Iâm âarguingâ with someone who says âWELL ACKSHUALLY MY BROTHER IS POOR AND HE DOESNâT PLAY LOTTOâ and thinks itâs an argument. Iâm poor and I donât play lotto either, so what?
And Iâm telling you, I went and searched for the info myself just to verify. You can find it just by doing a simple google search on the subject and looking at the sources. Literally the first result in a google search, literally less than a minuteâs time.
So which is it?
This is a disingenious argument relying on a grammar loophole. What I made is what is referred to as a âgeneral statementâ. Obviously Iâm not claiming 100% of all poor people play the lotto. That only applies to those poor people who play the lotto.
That makes no sense but whatevs. Like I said, Iâm not proving your point, thatâs your job. You could have linked this so called website that proved every thing youâre saying along time ago but you havenât which means it doesnât exist.
Good luck to the next person that wants to argue in a circle with this guy.
No dude, youâre just upset for being exposed for holding a stereotype that believes poor people are too stupid to manage their money.
derp!
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