After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.


Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (ed. Penguin UK, 2006) - ISBN: 9780141928739

Steven Levitt Quotes

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a...

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a...

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a...

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a...