Analysis Of Lotteries Cheat, Corrupt The People

In the Article “Lotteries Cheat, Corrupt the People” George Will presents the idea that lotteries are bad for the people, stating that legal gambling boost the productivity of illegal gambling, victimizing poor and minorities populations, and painful way of raising revenue. Will gives many reasons as to why he believes gambling is bad and backs his opinion with many facts on percentages of losers as well as quotes from Thomas Jefferson on the importance of hard work. Although Will presents many different facts I disagree with the general statement that “Lotteries Cheat, Corrupt the People” The reason a Lottery is good for the people starts with the mental aspect, some people can’t live without gambling much like those with a coffee addiction

Gamblers don’t gamble just to gamble they gamble to stay in the game, the rush of pulling that handle and hearing the wheel spin or the lights flash in rapid secession is the real drive to gamble not because the money, entertainment or to socialize these people were simply born this way. These types of gamblers are much like a coffee addict or an adrenaline junkie that lives to jump out of planes or bungee jump from tall bridges, but you don’t see Will calling them losers with no self-control. Will thinks all people gamble entirely for the money but doesn’t see it for what it is nor will he understand because his mind does not work like theirs. Gambling has been around since the start of Earth it is not just now coming to the people, our government didn’t start gambling the people did our government only controls it and makes it safe. People from all parts of the world gamble from the USA to China and anywhere in between, gambling is not a thing of money or race it’s a thing of history and evolution. The People who gamble today are the same as people who gambled in the caveman days they gambled on who would start the fire as I gamble on who will win the super bowl nothing has changed or will change the people want what the people

This includes all forms of income from high to low and all races from black to white. A more financially set adult will spend more money gambling then the “minority and poor populations” as Will explains them. If these so called poor populations have no money will they be the ones flying all the way to Vegas spending money on gas, food, hotel, and entertainment? I think not the ones gambling are those who make a good living and can afford to spend thousands of dollars in Las Vegas. One thing all people can agree there is not a person out there that would wish to be average their whole life, everyone wants to be able to retire knowing they have money to send their kids to college or to even buy luxury items. This hope of one day winning it big is the reason people get up each day only to work long and hard hours at work as well as at home. People don’t just quit their job because they lost the lottery they will work many more days to buy a ticket and hope to win only to try again and again. People need something they can look forward to work hard and achieve things never done before and the lottery provides this for them. You take this away and the hard-working people no longer have anything to look forward to, nothing stops them from going out and doing