Exactly! "...how do we know?"
I didn't think lotteries still existed. I mean the famous U.S lotteries or know if people still won them. 2 billion dollars! That's a real lot oh and I'd like to test that theory too 😄. It's easy for people to say that about these winners because... Well because all-reasons-you-have-given. You've said it all so well and there's no take I disagree with.
I however, would like to state that if I had only a billion dollars, I would... oh now I sound like the typical human. Haha
No but really, I write down a lot of plans and aspirations, no matter how farfetched or seemingly impossible it may seem and I tend to read those note more than twice in a week, even if passively in order to add more. Bottom line is, I strongly believe I would not be bereft of what to use a whole lot of money to do, especially as it won't be for me alone, so many beneficiaries on my list, even people I haven't met and I don't even have the means. When I do? Hah!
Anyhoo, it's probably a 'life' thing; people who have such huge plans usually have to work for their money and not get it for free.
Not unless it's inherited though.
And I think this is why so many people who win end up with less than they started, because that list expands and gets hungrier, eating until there is nothing left, then leaving for greener pastures. Doesn't that concern you?
Oh no. I mean it would if I meant it the way you seem to think I did.
By beneficiaries, I don't mean family and friends alone. Or consumables... I mean things and people that would actually add value to my life, and the lives of others. These promise huge returns. Even bigger than the free money. (Not exactly always actual money though, could be fulfillment or happiness).
One small example, assuming I get into being a Venture Capitalist in a start up or an SME, there's a promise of returns yeah?
Naa, I'm not one to forget to fill the well I draw from, I hardly only think about today. It's mostly always tomorrow for me. But not in the sense that I worry about tomorrow and not live today.