Powerball’s massive jackpot will rollover and increase after Saturday’s drawing produced no winning tickets, according to the game’s website.

The $1.4-billion jackpot now grows to $1.55 billion but remains the third-largest in Powerball’s history (the second largest was $1.586 billion in 2016).

The last time someone won the Powerball jackpot after the July 19 drawing for the $1.08 billion pot. The winning ticket then was sold in California.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Imagine if everyone just decided they were tired of this lottery bullshit and collectively refused to play…

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      1 year ago

      Personally I’d be far more interested in the lottery if we lived in a post scarcity society, where people’s needs are guaranteed to be met instead of the poorest people desperately trying to get out of poverty

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        1 year ago

        I used to think of the lottery as a tax on idiots but I’ve since come to realize it’s a tax on the desperate.

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          I play, and I’m not desperate (and hopefully not an idiot either). Here is my reasoning, but I’m open to ideas from people who may think differently. First, obviously, playing is losing money, just like scratch-offs. However, a winning scratch-off is not life changing money, it’s likely just making back some of the money you spent or will spend. A Powerball jackpot will allow you to actually have influence in the world. If you are someone who wins and decides to mooch off society just buying yachts and hookers and blow for the rest of your life, then it’s just wasted. But the amount of change in the world by building something that betters humanity would actually be accomplishable.