WE are told we are in a cost of living crisis but there is one thing people seem to always have money for.
I talk of course about National Lottery tickets.
I am genuinely confused how people who have seen their finances squeezed to the point of non-existence can still justify buying Lottery tickets.
Such logic is akin to not eating for a week in the hope you win a cooked meal on Saturday night.
How did it get to be like this?
It used to be that people worked and saved and had enough money for a mortgage.
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In 2024 people have to play the Lottery just to have some form of dream of getting on the housing ladder.
Meanwhile people wave away any fears or reservations that they have a long-term gambling problem by convincing themselves it is not gambling because you can participate in supermarkets or Post Offices.
Rest assured exactly the same thing goes on in bookmakers around the country but in these establishments the employees are legally required to stop taking money from someone who they deem to have gambled enough.
That does not happen in supermarkets and Post Offices and I shudder to think what these people spending hundreds of pounds every month on a con are going without because of their addiction.
B Jones, Newtown
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