When the going get’s tough, it turns out people are turning to the Lottery to try to escape their financial woes.
Rattled Americans Try Their Lottery Luck In Hard Times
One guy interviewed plays his state lottery $20 per week. He’s a restaurant chef. I guess he thinks investing over $1000 per year in the lottery is better than investing in himself. Here’s his thinking which he admits is strange:
“The worse the economy gets, the more ridiculous my thinking becomes,” Meredith said this week, taking a break from preparing chicken parmigiana specials at EDZ Restaurant in Goshen. “I say to myself, well I can spend $10 on gas, but that just buys me 2 gallons, or about 40 miles of travel — one day’s commute.
“But if I spend $10 on the lottery, at least I have a chance of making $5,000, and then I could take a real trip. … Times are tough and my only choice is to take a chance.”
I think people move from “business opportunity” to “business opportunity” for the same reasons many times. There are “opportunity junkies” who never stay long enough at one thing to give anything a chance and, I’ve noticed, they tend to jump on whatever the next “GREAT THING” is no matter how preposterous. It’s the same mentality but at least has the illusion of virtue because it’s “business”.
Their definition of “Business” though holds no place for any sense of “calling”, “work” or “perseverance”. It’s what psychologists sometimes call “magical thinking”: “If I wish hard enough, even doing the same crazy thing again and again might work out!”
Now, that mentality in part makes the sales of business opportunity information “evergreen”… always of interest. But when you’re recruiting sales agents, MLM distributors, etc. these people are the ones who think signing up for something produces paychecks and they can really sour you on building organizations.
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