Something else to consider is where the money you are spending on the lottery is going. Where I live that means state governments and specifically the school system. I am required to give those organizations money in a variety of ways but the lottery is voluntary. The state schools treat children horribly and the state itself does a lot of other horrible things.
I am not voluntarily giving money to those organizations.
One could also argue that the state and its schools would be able to do a much better job if they were better funded, arriving at the opposite conclusion.
It seems certain that both types of problems (problems of under-funding, and “other”) make a significant contribution to the failings of nation-states and schools.
Any problems caused by insufficient funding pale in comparison to the problem of how we treat the students. It would be a longish post for me to describe the problems I have with the public schools in the US, never mind the state itself, but if you are interested I will post it.
Something else to consider is where the money you are spending on the lottery is going. Where I live that means state governments and specifically the school system. I am required to give those organizations money in a variety of ways but the lottery is voluntary. The state schools treat children horribly and the state itself does a lot of other horrible things.
I am not voluntarily giving money to those organizations.
One could also argue that the state and its schools would be able to do a much better job if they were better funded, arriving at the opposite conclusion.
The problems that I see in the state and its schools are not problems that can be solved with more money.
It seems certain that both types of problems (problems of under-funding, and “other”) make a significant contribution to the failings of nation-states and schools.
Any problems caused by insufficient funding pale in comparison to the problem of how we treat the students. It would be a longish post for me to describe the problems I have with the public schools in the US, never mind the state itself, but if you are interested I will post it.