31 Coworkers split 47 Mill lottery

[Ol’Otis]

use the law of attraction speak it into existence

 

[knickscity]

Most people would view the ability to pay off student loans and a mortgage as life changing. That money just wiped out most people's two biggest bills. But hey, if it aint to you, it aint to you.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

$900,000 to me would be life changing.

I'd buy a nice house. For 300K and save there rest for retirement and keep working. Bills would be my light.

 

[itsyoung!!]

yall confusing @dora_da_destroyer saying life changing for forever money.. 900k is not forever money... I think that was her point

especially in california..

you cant retire in california at age 30 with 900k saved away and think you gonna make it to 80

I think that was her point.. she said its investment/retirement money (which is life changing) but yall confusing it for winning that and never working again...

 

[Another Man]

Now everybody on here is making 6 grand a month like its nothing? Ok fam. If you are cool but that is definitely not close to the avg at all

They must mean the coli avg

Everyones ballin on here, you aint know?

 

[Another Man]

I don't see anything wrong with what @dora_da_destroyer said....shyt is all relative

Not when youre trying to sound as if you speak for the avg person. 900k straight up is def changing the lives of the majority of the people in this country. Many live paycheck to paycheck. Hell, if you doubled many peoples paychecks, that alone has an effect cuz theyd actually havr money left over after bills and expenses.

 

[Pimp]

Because I'd have 9g's a month going into my pocket if I pay it. Start stacking to buy myself another building


And these are all reasons I don't consider this life changing. Life changing to me wipes out all debt and allows me to upgrade my lifestyle today onward. I should be able to make real investments today (property, for example) and investments for tomorrow and have the cash/income to live better - nice house, paid car, ability to pursue the career I care about more altho it pays markedly less - for me to identify it as life changing.

If you making 50k with 15k in retirement, then yea, this could change your life...shyt is relative to each person's situation, goals, and idea of a good life.


And funny how all of a suddenly everyone in this thread is a master investor who is gonna double this in 2-3 years yet can't flip the money they do have, in here losing their shyt cuz some people are in a position where it takes more than 900k to change their lives.

My man... You don't know how to invest...

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Most of them are gonna blow it quick, catch more L's than W's from that money, and meanwhile for each workplace like this there a million across America just throwing money into the lotto every week and getting nothing.

Look at the stats for what happens to lotto winners. Tax on the poor, desperate, or stupid, and nothing good comes from it.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

My man... You don't know how to invest...

Anyone who knows how to invest ain't gonna be playing the damn lotto unless they running a scam on it.

Quick money almost never plays out well. Stats show something like 70% of lotto winners are bankrupt within five years of winning, and most of them addicted to alcohol, drugs, or gambling too. Win the lotto and chances are your life end up worse than you started.

Not when youre trying to sound as if you speak for the avg person. 900k straight up is def changing the lives of the majority of the people in this country. Many live paycheck to paycheck. Hell, if you doubled many peoples paychecks, that alone has an effect cuz theyd actually havr money left over after bills and expenses.

More likely than not changing their lives in a bad way. They gonna buy stuff they can't afford to upkeep, go into debts they can't pay back, quit a job that they'll need again five years down the line, catch an addiction that'll ruin them. Lotto winners have terrible futures more often than not.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

yall confusing @dora_da_destroyer saying life changing for forever money.. 900k is not forever money... I think that was her point

Nah, cuz I said exactly that in my first response to her...

It's certainly life changing money, but I get and agree with the gist of what you're saying.

It's not "Quit your job, and spend the rest of your days living the life of Riley" money.



Those are life changing things brehette

Take it from me, I've been blessed with one of them (got scholarships through undergrad and grad, so no student debt), and I look at where I am compared to my peers who graduated in the hole....the lives are unquestionably changed. That's why everyone's jumping down your throat. Not having to pay those two bills results in THOUSANDS of dollars extra in your pocket each month. Imagine how much more stuff you could buy or more investments you could make in or more money you could save (dramatically changing your retirement trajectory) with those extra funds.


(P.S. You're right about the mortgage....you could probably refi into a rate that would make it more advantageous to keep the mortgage rather than paying it off, but that's a topic for another thread)

...and she still balked at it being life changing.


The only way it's not life changing is if you already live that life, i.e. you are already earning in the top tax bracket. If James Harden hit for $2M it wouldn't have a noticeably effect on his life. But if you ain't earning in that top tax bracket, getting $900k cash is certainly life changing money no matter where you live. SF may be expensive as fukk, but if you're surviving now making less than the top tax bracket, don't try to tell me that picking up a lump sum that is equal to 4-15 times (or more) your annual income isn't changing your life.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Not when youre trying to sound as if you speak for the avg person. 900k straight up is def changing the lives of the majority of the people in this country. Many live paycheck to paycheck. Hell, if you doubled many peoples paychecks, that alone has an effect cuz theyd actually havr money left over after bills and expenses.

where did I try to make this about the average person? All my responses have been about how I feel about it and what it'd do for ME.

My man... You don't know how to invest...

What does investing have to do with this? I know how to invest just fine, part of the reason I wouldn't see 900k as life changing. Like I said, that's either play big now money or long term money, it ain't both - for me. Keep dropping generic replies tho, everybody on this board isn't actually struggling

Nah, cuz I said exactly that in my first response to her...




...and she still balked at it being life changing.

like I said, we have different definitions of life changing...yes, life changing to me means forever changing my financial status from day one to death. If you wanna define life changing as it doing something in one aspect of your life (retirement) or freeing up a couple thousand for cats to shop more and party harder each month, then do you.

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

Not when youre trying to sound as if you speak for the avg person. 900k straight up is def changing the lives of the majority of the people in this country. Many live paycheck to paycheck. Hell, if you doubled many peoples paychecks, that alone has an effect cuz theyd actually havr money left over after bills and expenses.

Fine but I think she was talking from her perspective, not the average person .

The average American clears what? 50K annually and has no savings

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

like I said, we have different definitions of life changing...yes, life changing to me means forever changing my financial status from day one to death. If you wanna define life changing as it doing something in one aspect of your life (retirement) or freeing up a couple thousand for cats to shop more and party harder each month, then do you.

If it significantly changes your life, it's life changing. And 900k would absolutely significantly change anyone's life who's not a top earner. There's no logical way to spin that.

Couple thousand a month? Does your student loans and mortgage payments in the incredibly expensive city of San Francisco only amount to a couple thousand a month? Your continued attempts at trying to downplay this W is hilarious.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

They were not only co-workers but a lot of em are related or family.

That's major. But they also come from a broke ass area of the country so I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot of drinking and gambling.

First Nation? Oh. That money is already gone.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

First Nation? Oh. That money is already gone.

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