Unless you’re already rich or come from a wealthy family, winning the lottery seems like the only way to vault yourself into that category – the only true “get rich quick” scheme. But if you were holding out hope that someday, a winning lottery ticket would get you out of that dead-end job and that crappy apartment you can barely afford, we’re sorry to point out that you have better odds of getting struck by lightning – at 1 in 700,000 – than you do of winning the Powerball, for example – at a daunting 1 in 175,223,510.
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Anya Wassenberg 