A more interesting question might be: How many pilots actually play
the lottery?

I, for one, look at it as a tax on stupidity.

Hehe - well, the odds are definitely against those who play, but it is a
pretty clever tax.

Plenty of poor(er) people pay - er... "play", thus helping recoop the
expense of schooling their own children.

I don't play very often, but the occasional buck thrown at it is not going
to matter.

The irritating thing to me is gambling is "illegal" - unless, of course, it
benefits the friggin' government. It's like TFRs - governmental planes are
unrestricted. George Orwell was right; just a little ahead of his time.