Click here to read “Why you keep playing the lottery” by Jacque Wilson from CNN.com on November 28, 2012.
Maybe your kid is sick and there are hospital bills to pay. Maybe you’ve lost your job and you’re worried about making rent. Maybe you still have a job, but it sucks, and you’d really like to spend the next 50 years lying on a beach with a mai tai in hand. Whatever your predicament, the current estimated Powerball jackpot of $550 million could fix it. Which makes us wonder — when it comes to playing the lottery, are we all just damsels in distress?