Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Hard Working Poor Person Lottery

Need to pass strict criteria test submitted by people who know them.
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The form would be filled out by friends, family members, coworkers etc and the price for a ticket would be $100 paid for by their friends, not the person entered who wouldn’t know anything about it unless they won.

The drawing would have to be held in secret because the winners would have to be verified as being as attested to in the entry form the entrant’s associates filled out. The criteria would be:

1- 50 plus years old. 2- In the same job for 10 years +. 3- Making only minimum wage all those years. 4- Kind. 5- Drug and alcohol free. 6- Positive disposition despite a hard life. And 7- A moving background story of life challenges overcome.

Have a TV show to go with it maybe. Or not, fame is weird and not necessarily good.

Have it be monthly, grand prize is X percentage of the till, second place is 1/2 X, third is 1/4 etc.

Inspired by the link.

doctorremulac3, Apr 21 2025

Inspired by this. https://x.com/atens...09196604305624?s=46
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       So your plan is to find the most deserving people and bilk them? Shades of 8th.
Voice, Apr 21 2025
  

       Their friends pay for it but yes, their friends might have their money go to another deserving person.   

       Didn’t clarify that, fixed now.
doctorremulac3, Apr 21 2025
  

       But now that you mention it the lottery DOES tax the poorest people. Traveling cross the state stopped in a town that made the town I grew up in look like Vienna or Milan. Gas station store had three rows of booze aisles and 7 friggin lottery ticket machines.   

       Of course the lottery money goes to “education”. Uh huh.
doctorremulac3, Apr 21 2025
  

       // $100 paint fur butte friends,//   

       If I take the words at their actual meanings, or any of their alternate meanings, I still don't underhend.   

       Fixed, sprll chevk seems to be having issues
doctorremulac3, Apr 22 2025
  

       And I didn't write "sprll chevk" on purpose to be cute, that's actually what it thought I wanted to say.
doctorremulac3, Apr 22 2025
  
      
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