It is axiomatic that taxing something reduces the supply of that something. Accordingly, if a lottery is a tax on stupid people and/or people who are bad at math, then the existence of the lottery should have the effect of reducing the numbers of those people.
Since both stupid people and people who are bad at math inflict many external costs on the rest of us, it follows that it is in our interest to reduce their numbers as much as possible. Accordingly, I propose we facilitate lottery play to the greatest possible extent.
Removing the monopoly on lottery games from the states would be a good start; if anyone can run a numbers game, then presumably more numbers games will come into existence, and the evolutionary process will be hastened.
A utopia of smart, mathematically-competent people awaits us…if we but have the courage to embrace it!
