my son, 12, had an epiphany the other day. he asks me how much a lottery ticket is. I said a few bucks. he asked, "and you can win like 15 million dollars right?" I said yes. I was already preparing for how I would respond to him asking if he could use his allowance to buy a bunch of tickets. but he took a bit longer for his next response. "what if WE make like. ... 1000 tickets. and charge everyone 5 bucks a ticket... then make one of those tickets win and pay the winner 1000 bucks. We would make 4000!!!" I said "yes we would." He asked, "then why don't we do that?" I said cause the government won't let us. He asked "then why do the stores get to do it?" I said that the stores are selling tickets that the government makes, the store doesn't make them. "so the government gets to make lottery tickets but doesn't let us make them?" I said yup. "that's dumb"
you don't want your kids to see you cry, but they make it so hard sometimes
