Of course with a basic understanding of saving and investment, virtually any competent educated person in an affluent country can readily save over a million dollars in a lifetime. Of the benefits reported by those who have done so, the single biggest one is the ease of mind that comes from knowing that no short-term crisis is likely to be beyond your means.

Conversely the average lottery winner winds up a short time later with the winnings being only a fading memory. And most people live with a justified fear of uncontrollable financial crises due to uncontrollable outside circumstances.

But the potential lottery winner certainly gets more excitement than the plodding but fairly certain path to (modest) riches. Most people seem to find that worthwhile. At least that is how they behave.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Lottery combinations golf by tilly
in thread Lottery combinations golf by Cody Pendant

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.