Topic > Persuasive Essay: Winning the Lottery - 1729

The four people, Alan, Vince, Haley, and Cole, all had the same answer. Their answers were simple: put most of your money in the bank so it can earn interest, and use a small amount sensibly. Each of them just wanted to have something secure to fall back on, even if there is enough money to support them for the rest of their lives. This shows that each of these people are money conscious and would like to protect what they get in life. And it was interesting to find out their backgrounds too because they all come from middle class families who are doing well in terms of salary, so it was interesting to see that they were putting it all in the bank, instead of spending it. This interested me because I would have predicted that people similar to them would choose to spend it rather than save it. However, their answers are perhaps the most correct thing to do when you win the lottery according to Forbes' "list of things to do if you win the lottery", but in reality no one is going to put all or most of them away to keep them Safe. . Even when I tried to explain that most people who win won't put money in the bank, they still stood by their answers. I also explained to them the curse of the lottery and this only reaffirmed their responses to keep most of the money in a