I love when people are like “if you get a windfall of money you’ll probably go bankrupt. Look at the statistics from lottery winners, 70% of them end up broke.”
Ah yes, a subset of the population whose only common traits are that they gamble and make objectively terrible financial decisions. Obviously this group should be the benchmark for the financial literacy and money management of the general population.
Cause nothing screams “sound judgement” like a nicotine addiction.
I love when people are like “if you get a windfall of money you’ll probably go bankrupt. Look at the statistics from lottery winners, 70% of them end up broke.”
Ah yes, a subset of the population whose only common traits are that they gamble and make objectively terrible financial decisions. Obviously this group should be the benchmark for the financial literacy and money management of the general population.
No, winners aren’t all dumbasses. This post is smart and important to understand the whole thing.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the_happiest_5word_sentence_you_could_hear/chb38xf/
Well now I wonder if there’s a control for that in the studies. Would I make good or poor choices in the same situation?
I’d still roll the dice.
A used heroin needle poll however, that’s how you get the opinions of our greatest minds