minus-squareCurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.nettoNews@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Biographer Warns Billionaire Is ‘Going Mad’ Due To ‘Combination Of Depression, Drugs And Stress’linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 day agoThe idea that 70% of lottery winners lose all their winnings isn’t true. It’s based on a fake statistic. The news loves to highlight the cases where that’s true because it reinforces the cultural notion that wealth is tied to morality. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/belief-in-a-lottery-curse-is-comforting-but-winning-lots-of-money-does-make-you-happy linkfedilink
minus-squareCurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.nettoNews@lemmy.world•Elon Musk suddenly doesn’t want credit for disastrous DOGE cutslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoLet us pray that the patron saint Luigi watches over him night and day. linkfedilink
The idea that 70% of lottery winners lose all their winnings isn’t true. It’s based on a fake statistic.
The news loves to highlight the cases where that’s true because it reinforces the cultural notion that wealth is tied to morality.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/21/belief-in-a-lottery-curse-is-comforting-but-winning-lots-of-money-does-make-you-happy