April 13, 2011
The lottery has seduced many Americans to it harmful empowerment of money that has lead many people to their demise and the more people that play the lottery the more suffering it brings to people and everyone around them. The lottery dates back to 7th century B.C. at the Arab peninsula where most gambling at that time took place where men at the age of seventeen or older would gamble who would win major battles or things that happen in everyday lives. From that time period on the lottery has progressed like casinos and lottery tickets which are tickets with numbers on them and if the number is identical to the one on television or sometimes in stores someone will win millions of dollars. People may believe that winning millions of dollars is fun because it’s money, everyone wants money, but soon the lottery wont seem fun when the person that becomes shrouded and blinded by the lotteries winnings that it will lead them to their demise because the lottery has caused many negative influences on people because many are becoming addicted and when earnings are won family bonds are often broken because the lottery winner becomes negatively empowered.
First the lottery has a harmful effect on us all because people that play the lottery get attached and addicted to it and once they start they can’t stop. Others may argue that people only play the lottery to win money. Well think about it the average person that plays the lottery buys approximately thirty five to fifty lottery tickets a month and with the very slim odds of winning because six million play the lottery and people still aware of the small odds now that’s addictive. Many people play the lottery its all across America so if 6 million people play and people spend seven to twelve dollars playing the lottery than if one person out of six million play than giving away one million dollars is nothing to them, the people actually in charge of the lottery are making