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@Vinz
you need to justify this assertion LPG. I prefer to call it a tax on the poor.
It's no coincidence that George Orwell was only ten years off with his predictions in '1984', the Lottery was introduced by The Grey Prime Minister in '94 (apparently the Camelot board all drink in the same Club as Major). Orwell said the Proles were illiterate and innumerate, but all of them could wax lyrical about the numbers in the lottery and when they came up and what the odds might be and all that crap. It's a really interesting bit of that novel, I read it in '94 saying Oh Wow man a la Neil from Young Ones.[/quote]
Regardless of their chances of winning, people need hope. With job's increasingly becoming harder to find and job security pretty much a forgotten term, the lottery to many is the only way they see a way of making their lives better.