As NPR explains this morning, your chances of winning the $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot are 1000 times worse than picking a particular penny out of a stack the height of the Empire State Building.
As NPR explains this morning, your chances of winning the $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot are 1000 times worse than picking a particular penny out of a stack the height of the Empire State Building.
Have there ever been any serious efforts to identify examples of real human problems which could be solved –some perhaps once and for all– with a similar “lottery” of one-time, voluntary, mass, individually inexpensive resource ($) contributions –coupled, of course, with the post-funding mechanism to solve the problem? Crowd funding WRIT BIG. 1.4 BILLION dollars towards something helpful would make a lot of people feel good. Is this the most idiotic suggestion I’ve ever made?