{"id":10287,"date":"2011-10-10T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/the-lottery-player\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T16:33:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:33:56","slug":"the-lottery-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/the-lottery-player\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lottery Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Those who play lotteries, by the very fact that they play, demonstrate the irrationality and lack of financial understanding that in many cases would ruin them were they so &#39;lucky&#39; as to win.&#0160; And yet people persist in the illusion that everything would be fine if a huge sum of money were suddenly dumped on their heads: money that they do not deserve and have done nothing to earn; money&#0160; that has been taken from their fellow rubes on false pretenses by an illegitimate state apparatus the net effect of which is harmful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Primum non nocere<\/em>: first do no harm.&#0160; That ought to be, but is not, the first principle of government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who play lotteries, by the very fact that they play, demonstrate the irrationality and lack of financial understanding that in many cases would ruin them were they so &#39;lucky&#39; as to win.&#0160; And yet people persist in the illusion that everything would be fine if a huge sum of money were suddenly dumped on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/the-lottery-player\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lottery Player&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}