I'm fond of the saying, "lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math." But seriously, you are correct that lotteries validate dreaming for those who probably won't achieve that level of wealth through any other means. Lots of psychology and sociology in that one. 
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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