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If you really think about it, you can find an extraordinary range of life’s situations that can be inherently risky. Nearly everything someone does is some type of gambling. Even with such mundane act of getting up and going to work, increases one’s prospects of being killed in a transportation accident. In face of today and everything you know about investing, whether it is in business, an asset class (stocks, bonds, real-estate, cash and commodities), or index fund, even in its most basic element, it’s nothing more than “betting” that someday tomorrow is going to be better with pleasant expected returns on investment; or perhaps not. There is only one big risk you should avoid and that’s the risk of doing nothing and not taking your chance.
Come to look-at it in face value, investing within any money market really is, legalized gambling, per se. You can look at investing when it comes to chart formation, or you put your hard earned money in the utilities anticipating once they are “due”, you cash in or again maybe not; or you decide to have any among the hundreds of analysts culling spreadsheets or fund index investors work on the fundamentals of investing for you in manufacturing, real-estate, cash and commodities-no matter what your reasoning for that, if that’s not gambling, then what is? Basically, you are betting that in 5, 10 or 15 years from now there will be more people, buying more stuff, utilizing more energy, reliant on more gadgets-with hope you can cash in; or possibly not. You are basically “betting” on all of it.
So it really is, with the lottery-a type of gambling with origins in Florence, Italy, where the very first lottery was held in the 16th Century, then called the Lotto de Firenze, and quickly adopted by other Italian cities. It became a national official lottery, and still known today as the Lotto in Italy, as also adopted and called in lots of other countries, such as the United States. The lottery, as a form of government-licensed gambling, involves drawing of lots for a wide selection of winnings and then for the massive jackpot prize. Gambling, like poker, blackjack, roulette, sports betting and racing, can involve skill or simply chance alone; but the lottery isn’t going to require any special skills-set to play.
As with any risk, often there is something at stake. Even when you decide to take the risk of starting a business, you stand to lose money, time and your reputation. The same things you stand to gain whenever you take the chance to start your own business. The lots you buy to play the lottery are today within the type of tickets and the prize is often a sizable sum of money. The draws are random and every player has an equal chance of winning the key prize which often grows really big with massive roll over jackpots.
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