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# Kim Phillips-Fein on the Powerball
- URL: https://joshualore.com/inthemiddleway/kim-phillips-fein-on-the-powerball-rather-than/
- Published: 2016-01-14T17:48:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-03T04:52:13.000Z
- Author: Joshua Lore
- Tags: Uncategorized, justice, Lottery, Powerball, #Migrated-1788408094757, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-03 00:01

> “Rather than simply manipulating ignorance, the lottery teaches a sly lesson: for people in desperate situations, fantasy is the only answer. Reinforcing the message of personal mobility, lottery playing teaches that you’re on your own, that organization and politics are loser’s games.   
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> Unlike the liquor salesmen or absentee landlords, the lottery sells a vision of the future—a future imagined in terms of an unchangeable class system. The poor donate money to make one of their number rich, at which point that person and their newfound wealth pack up and move out. And the rich pay nothing for this self-containing system of political quiescence—in fact, they get a tax cut.”