i can get gambling on a lot of things like sports, rare events or whether your mate can do x in y seconds... this has some element of fun. lotteries though, they distil gambling to its purest form - numbers...
its like injecting nicotine instead of smoking cigarettes.
They're halfway there already with "vaping". Tobacco requires a lot of land and labor to grow and process; "vapor juice" can be made by third-rate chemistry labs in China for half the cost.
Eventually they'll do away with lottery tickets too, and instead the clerk will just tell you that you lost. Which is reminiscent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe5rZFCiLsA.
at the risk of being cliché this made me laugh out loud (lol).
hmm. that kind of invalidates the point. XD