And economists -- forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery -- but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet -- which, by the way, doesn't require that you actually go to the store and buy anything.
I ekonomisti - oprostite, vi koji igrate loto - ali ekonomisti, bar između sebe, nazivaju loto porezom na glupost, jer su izgledi da vam se isplati ulaganje novca u kupnju listića približno jednaki bacanju novca direktno u WC školjku - što, usput, ne traži da stvarno odete u trgovinu i kupite nešto.