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Originally Posted by alexb5784  You don’t believe that you can earn more money through your own efforts. And as a result, you believe that the only way you can have what you want, is by having someone else give it to you (the lottery, inheritance, money as a gift, finding money on the street, etc). |
Many believe that every penny you have ever "earned" came to you through your thoughts, feelings and the Law of Attraction. Doesn't matter if you traded dollars for time, invested in stocks or real estate, started a business, bought a lottery ticket, recieved an inheritance, or won it on a game show.
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Originally Posted by alexb5784 And even if you win, you aren’t creating value for your society, but taking it away. |
Bull. I think you must have a pretty narrow definition of what constitutes value.
Many, when they spend a dollar on a lottery ticket they receive well over a dollar's worth of hope and optimism in return. They feel good. And if they are smart, they buy their ticket early so they can feel good all week!! (If they didn't receive some value for their dollar, they wouldn't buy another ticket the next week.)
And if by chance they do win, you have no idea what value they will create once they receive the money. (It isn't required that the value come first, and the money second.)
And if they squander all the money and receive no joy from it, you still don't know what value was created. I mean losing millions can be a pretty valuable lesson. And maybe that is the lesson they "Intended" to receive all along.