I love this especially this part:
The lottery, on the other hand, is fair and equal to all. anyone can play the lottery, no matter how stupid and talentless you are, you can always buy a lottery ticket.
Boy ain't that truth? This truth is universal and doesn't apply to just Finns. Here from where I am from it's common to see well educated people with good career buying lottery. They take it so seriously to the point of being absurd. Like if there is a car accident people would flock to buy lottery of the totaled car's registration number. They sort of think that they could strike a fortune by someone else's misfortune.
Exactly.
As we say over here in the States (not that we invented it), "the lottery is tax on the stupid/math disinclined".
Interesting fact: In the US, you are more likely to die driving to get a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery. Nobody puts that into their EV calculations, I bet.