-=> Arelor wrote to Digimaus <=-

 Ar> I think a lot of it is social presure only. It is very typical in Spain
 Ar> for people in the workplace to pool money in and buy a lottery ticket
 Ar> for the whole office every now and then. If everybody is doing it and
 Ar> you don't participate, you come across as the weird sociopathic guy.

Here, they play it up ad additional money for the public education system
(which in reality is just flushing it down the toilet).  A lot of poor
people spend a good chunk of their government money on lottery tickets.

 Ar> I am the weird sociopathic guy, but not because I don't play the
 Ar> lottery (because I don't).

I don't recall any workplace I've been at doing that.  It might not be
really common here, dunno.

-- Sean

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