The problem with lottery winners is that they are bad with money in general. That's why they play the fucking lottery in the first place. An argument could be made that state-sponsored lotteries are a way to keep the poor poor.
Poor mans tax lotteries are.
You are speaking in riddles Quickfant, unless you are able to differentiate between state-sponsored lotteries and some kinds of lottery that would not be a poor man's lottery.
If you are referring to bitcoin, bitcoin is not a lottery, and we tend to NOT talk about shitcoins in these here parts, unless we are pointing out something negative, and sure there are quite a few of the various shitcoins that would fairly be considered as kinds of lotteries - but that's not even clear about what is your reference from your post in terms of what would be a lottery that is "not a poor man's lottery" - if it matters to anything in which we are discussing in this here thread....
Maybe he is referring to a study that more than a decade ago claimed that US households with earnings of less than 13,000 per year spent 9% of that income on lotteries, I remember hearing about that at the time and I made a quick search but I could not find the original source of the study, but at least in one of the articles that figure is claimed to be wrong and the correct number is something like 2% or 3%.
https://www.businessinsider.com/households-earning-less-than-13000-a-year-spend-9-of-their-income-on-lottery-tickets-2012-3?r=MX&IR=TBy the way, many of us likely do appreciate that even if the odds are against folks in winning the lottery or otherwise scoring BIGGEDly based on their life circumstances are not very high, lotteries can provide a glimmer of hope for folks who seem to have engaged in a decent amount of ill-preparations in order to potentially become richie..
I think something similar, for example people buy insurance for their car, house and themselves, they sacrifice some money today in order to protect themselves in the future, no one wants their car to be cashed, their house to catch on fire or to see their health deteriorate but they know it happens and they take measures to protect themselves from it, I see lotteries with similar eyes, those that have almost no chance to improve their lives on the short term sacrifice some money today so they can have the chance to do so in the future even if the chances are low, creating some sort of last resort kind of insurance.