A good news for the New Year: American lottery "Power Ball" has finally drawn the prize, with a prize of up to 570 million US dollars!
is not the winner of this issue ↑
And the bad news may be: the winner is not you.
Yes, just on January 6, the US lottery Powerball, which was as high as US$570 million, was about RMB 3.7 billion! !
bonus is won by a lottery, and it is a huge prize ranked 7th in American history~ According to relevant departments, the place of sale is New Hampshire (People in this state can care more about their friends, maybe they are the invisible rich man around them.)
According to the winning rules, if you choose to receive the bonus in one go, after removing all taxes, the first prize winner can still receive US$360 million (approximately RMB 2.34 billion).
Although the probability of winning the first prize of the Powerball is only one in 290 million. Here, Ami Ge still couldn't help but think about it:
If I win the prize, will I reach the peak of my life from now on and no longer have to work?
However, the matter of "get rich" is actually far from as simple as we imagined!
According to the study by the Wealth Weekly of "Fortune", 44% of the winners of
lottery went bankrupt within five years. They often alienate their families and friends, have depression, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and their divorce and suicide rates are also higher than those of ordinary people.
If you google the relevant news, you will find that in the news reports, the "lucky people" who win the lottery are often associated with words such as dividend, fire, murder, gambling, hookers, thieves, suicide, taxes, and crack.
Let’s take a look at these creepy real cases in history, and you will understand:
1.Jack Whittake Jack Whittaker
According to Time magazine, in 2002, Jack Whittaker, who was already a millionaire at the time, received a $315 million lottery prize in West Virginia . However, just four years after the award was won, the 55-year-old construction company president declared bankruptcy. His granddaughter and daughter also died one after another due to drug overdose. Jack Whitaker himself was robbed for $545,000 while at a strip club.
2.Abraham Shakespeare Abraham Shakespeare
Abraham won $30 million in the 2009 Florida lottery but was murdered soon after. According to ABC News, the 47-year-old man was shot twice in the chest and was then hidden under a concrete slab in the backyard. The murderer was his friend Didi Moore. The two met after winning the prize in Abraham and became friends. In 2012, the "friend" was convicted of first-degree murder.
3. Ronnie Music Jr. Ronnie
According to CBS , Ronnie of Georgia invested $3 million of his lottery bonus to a methamphetamine trafficking gang and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
4. Urooj Khan Uroy Khan
In 2012, the day before Khan died, the Illinois man just received a $1 million lottery prize. According to CBS, forensics initially determined that Khan died of natural causes. But another official later discovered that the winner died of cyanide poisoning.
5.Jeffrey Dampier Jeffrey Dampier
When the Illinois lottery was drawn in 1996, Jeffrey received a $20 million bonus. He used the bonus to help his family around him and bought many expensive gifts for his relatives and friends. But sister-in-law, Victoria , was obviously not satisfied, she joined forces with her boyfriend to kidnap Denmark and hit him in the head. The two were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
6. William Post William Post
After reading these thrilling stories that "expanded" because of winning the prize
has scared us poor babies to death~
The higher you fly, the more you may fall, the more you will fall, and the greater your ability, the heavier your responsibility
It seems that Jack Ma's father The golden sentence that dad once complained about:
"It is actually very uncomfortable to earn one or two billion a month."
may really be the heartfelt words of others~
It is indeed poverty that limits my imagination.
Amigo still decided to go back and work well = =
Meditation moment
with the text: Financial management tips for lottery owners
You still have to have dreams: If you really win the lottery jackpot by accident, how should you manage your finances and avoid the tragedy in the above article? Fortune Weekly gave the winners the following three suggestions:
3. Finally, manage your finances reasonably! ! Always remember: This grand prize is not as much as you imagined. takes the $1.6 billion bonus from Viagra last year as an example, 45% of which will be used to pay taxes. And if you plan to give money to others, don’t forget that there is also a “gift tax”. . . If you don’t have a financial management mind, you will find that 90% of the bonuses are actually donated to the state and federal governments.
It seems that
deals with "flying wealth" with a "unchanging" mentality
is the most rational way to manage finances ~
And no matter how lucky you are, you cannot give up your work ~
After all, as poor as we
really can't win the lottery in this life
, only talent and imagination can be squandered ~
If you win the lottery, will you still work? Single choice
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work ~ The baby's talent has nowhere to display
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eat, drink, play and enjoy life
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