Benefits Of Winning The Lottery

The chances of winning the Powerball lottery are 1 in 175.2 million, which means that you are more likely to die from a bee sting or get struck by lightning. Although the chances of winning are slim to none, it is still possible. But is winning the lottery beneficial? Since winning the lottery does not make winners physically happier, puts winners in financial ruin, and destroys winners important relationships, winning the lottery is not beneficial. When you think of accumulating millions of dollars in a small amount of time, happiness probably comes to mind. But research shows that that actually isn’t the case. “A 2008 University of California study measured people’s happiness six months after winning a relatively modest lottery prize — a lump sum equivalent to about eight months’ worth of income,
“We found that this had zero detectable effect on happiness at that time,” Peter Kuhn, one of the study authors and a professor of economics, told the network in 2012”(5 Reasons… Lottery). This information proves that a person is to feel the same when they work hard to earn their money, as when somebody is just granted money. So why is there a need to win the lottery when a person would have the same feeling without the lottery? Another piece of evidence proving my point states, “A study published back in 1978 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology a few decades back, when lotteries were still fairly new, compared the happiness levels of Illinois State Lottery winners and non-winners. They found little difference. And when it came to rating everyday happiness, the lottery winners took “significantly less