I saw the article about the guy last December who won $314 million, I got to thinking why we have such large pots for just one person, when it could I'm sure easily be divided up into $3 million dollar prizes for (in this case about 105 people).
Is it part of our culture, that one person needs to be filthy rich and a "winner takes all" type of attitude, rather than a large number of modestly rich people ($3 million is a lot by any standard).
Then I got to thinking about the CEO of the company I work for made $80 million two years ago, while we were all stuck with a piddly 1% raise because of "difficult economic times", why couldn't he split up at least part of his earnings with the rest of us? But if the CEO of the company was to give everyone $1 million each then no one would be working for the company anymore!
Do you think that could also be a reason? I mean if there were greater chances of winning the lottery, then larger segments of the population wouldnt be working anymore!
Is it part of our culture, that one person needs to be filthy rich and a "winner takes all" type of attitude, rather than a large number of modestly rich people ($3 million is a lot by any standard).
Then I got to thinking about the CEO of the company I work for made $80 million two years ago, while we were all stuck with a piddly 1% raise because of "difficult economic times", why couldn't he split up at least part of his earnings with the rest of us? But if the CEO of the company was to give everyone $1 million each then no one would be working for the company anymore!
Do you think that could also be a reason? I mean if there were greater chances of winning the lottery, then larger segments of the population wouldnt be working anymore!
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