How would you like to feel, being the one guy who matched every number, but the Powerball number and only walked away with $1million?

TayIor wrote How would you like to feel, being the one guy who matched every number, but the Powerball number and only walked away with $1million?

ONLY $1,000,000?

I'd probably have a heart attack winning $500

Dun wrote

TayIor wrote How would you like to feel, being the one guy who matched every number, but the Powerball number and only walked away with $1million?

ONLY $1,000,000?

I'd probably have a heart attack winning $500

But he had the chance to win up to $500 Million. But he missed the last number.

Dun wrote

TayIor wrote How would you like to feel, being the one guy who matched every number, but the Powerball number and only walked away with $1million?

ONLY $1,000,000?

I'd probably have a heart attack winning $500

right i would like to "only" hit a million.

I can see the appeal of winning the lottery, but studies have shown that eventually your happiness will return to the level it was at before you won.

They asked people paralyzed from the waist down and people who had won the lottery how happy they were a year after they either got paralyzed or won the lottery.
On average they replied that they were at the same level of happiness as they were before they got paralyzed or won the lottery.

People are very good at recognizing the short term bonuses of something, but it's much harder to predict how you will feel in the long term.

Just for fun, here are a list of things that you are more likely to do than win the lottery
[Getting struck by lightning excluded because everyone knows that]

- You are more likely to get hit by a meteor.
- You are more likely to win an Oscar.
- You are more likely to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
- You are more likely to give birth to identical quadruplets [unless you're a male.]
- You are more likely to become an Astronaut.

It's not to be said that money will make a person happy, everyone recognizes that's not how it works you still have fears when you're rich you can still be nervous you can still feel 'negative things' but there is absolutely no way you can deny that money is one of the biggest stresses in this world and to have to never worry about financial security again never have to work again would be a massive change for anyone and a big positive. And everyones different, some people are actually capable of losing all their winnings from the lottery due to poor financial decisions (who would have ever thought some of the same people that play the lottery are also people who make poor financial decisions), while some may use their money wisely and invest it properly to allow them to live off it forever or even gain a profit, it's all case specific imo

Good point.

Euclid wrote I can see the appeal of winning the lottery, but studies have shown that eventually your happiness will return to the level it was at before you won.

They asked people paralyzed from the waist down and people who had won the lottery how happy they were a year after they either got paralyzed or won the lottery.
On average they replied that they were at the same level of happiness as they were before they got paralyzed or won the lottery.

People are very good at recognizing the short term bonuses of something, but it's much harder to predict how you will feel in the long term.

It's not to be said that money will make a person happy, everyone recognizes that's not how it works you still have fears when you're rich you can still be nervous you can still feel 'negative things' but there is absolutely no way you can deny that money is one of the biggest stresses in this world and to have to never worry about financial security again never have to work again would be a massive change for anyone and a big positive. And everyones different, some people are actually capable of losing all their winnings from the lottery due to poor financial decisions (who would have ever thought some of the same people that play the lottery are also people who make poor financial decisions), while some may use their money wisely and invest it properly to allow them to live off it forever or even gain a profit, it's all case specific imo

Euclid wrote I can see the appeal of winning the lottery, but studies have shown that eventually your happiness will return to the level it was at before you won.

They asked people paralyzed from the waist down and people who had won the lottery how happy they were a year after they either got paralyzed or won the lottery.
On average they replied that they were at the same level of happiness as they were before they got paralyzed or won the lottery.

People are very good at recognizing the short term bonuses of something, but it's much harder to predict how you will feel in the long term.

Just for fun, here are a list of things that you are more likely to do than win the lottery
[Getting struck by lightning excluded because everyone knows that]

- You are more likely to get hit by a meteor.
- You are more likely to win an Oscar.
- You are more likely to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
- You are more likely to give birth to identical quadruplets [unless you're a male.]
- You are more likely to become an Astronaut.

Its not completely about being happy or not happy. Yea, $500 million will make anybody happy. But its more about not having to have to worry about the everyday stresses of finances.

My family would never work another day if I was to win that much money, I would retire everybody. Now, there are those people that will still live normal lives. I used to watch a show, I think it was called, How the Lottery Changed My Life. Some of those lottery winners won hundreds of millions of dollars, but still continued to work their everyday jobs, as if they didnt win it.

Money has a different impact on everybody. Im only eighteen years old, I still have a long, hard life ahead of me. But winning a lot of money would definitely make anybodys life easier.

TayIor wrote

Euclid wrote I can see the appeal of winning the lottery, but studies have shown that eventually your happiness will return to the level it was at before you won.

They asked people paralyzed from the waist down and people who had won the lottery how happy they were a year after they either got paralyzed or won the lottery.
On average they replied that they were at the same level of happiness as they were before they got paralyzed or won the lottery.

People are very good at recognizing the short term bonuses of something, but it's much harder to predict how you will feel in the long term.

Just for fun, here are a list of things that you are more likely to do than win the lottery
[Getting struck by lightning excluded because everyone knows that]

- You are more likely to get hit by a meteor.
- You are more likely to win an Oscar.
- You are more likely to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
- You are more likely to give birth to identical quadruplets [unless you're a male.]
- You are more likely to become an Astronaut.

Its not completely about being happy or not happy. Yea, $500 million will make anybody happy. But its more about not having to have to worry about the everyday stresses of finances.

My family would never work another day if I was to win that much money, I would retire everybody. Now, there are those people that will still live normal lives. I used to watch a show, I think it was called, How the Lottery Changed My Life. Some of those lottery winners won hundreds of millions of dollars, but still continued to work their everyday jobs, as if they didnt win it.

Money has a different impact on everybody. Im only eighteen years old, I still have a long, hard life ahead of me. But winning a lot of money would definitely make anybodys life easier.

I'm not saying that money doesn't make life easier, but there's a difference between the ease of something and how happy you are doing it.
The fact that they said they were just as happy as they were before they won means that they had found something outside of financial stress to worry about [or be sad about] which replaced their financial stress.

God dam, can you actually imagine what you would do if you won it?
Like we all think we'd freak out but until it happens we don't know how we'd react or what we would do first!