The best thing the U.S. has is a lenient bankruptcy law. An entrepreneur knows that the worst thing that happen is to go bankrupt. If an economy focuses on the downside, it will get the downside. All those people playing the lottery will be investing in the stock market. It has an absolute value of more than one, and the lottery has an absolute value of less than one.
Governments create lotteries.
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