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For a Dollar and a Dream
99% Invisible
The Future of Lotteries in the US
The rise of state lotteries in the 1970s coincides with the rise of the prosperity gospel and this sort of inflection of merititious money or what one scholar calls a miraculous meritocracy. If you're not willing to ascribe your jackpot to random probability, there's only one explanation in that is to assume that God is the one who gave you your money. Young people are getting the same thing lottery players get out of it, but they're just finding it in different ways.
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