As NPR explains this morning, your chances of winning the $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot are 1000 times worse than picking a particular penny out of a stack the height of the Empire State Building.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
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Have there ever been any serious efforts to identify examples of real human problems which could be solved --some perhaps once and for all-- with a similar "lottery" of one-time, voluntary, mass, individually inexpensive resource ($) contributions --coupled, of course, with the post-funding mechanism to solve the problem? Crowd funding WRIT BIG. 1.4 BILLION dollars towards something helpful would make a lot of people feel good. Is this the most idiotic suggestion I've ever made?
Posted by: Ron Tschudy | Friday, January 15, 2016 at 07:44 PM