You actually strengthen basementcat's point. There have been many stories about how lottery winners often end up worse off than they were before. Handing someone 100 million dollars won't keep them rich if they are bad at handling money. Apparently this is proven by research of lottery winners: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_0011... and https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016/01/12/odds-are-15-...