the vast majority of tickets are purchased by about 20 percent of the population. These high-frequency players tend to be poor and uneducated, which is why critics refer to lotteries as a regressive tax.
And yet a Massachusetts auditor for the lottery says of people gaming the lottery system:
The problem is that when there's a lot of money involved, unscrupulous people are always going to be looking for new ways to game the system, or worse.
Exactly. So why don't I feel sorry for them?