alt Hacker NewsHow could it possibly be the rational choice if the ev doing so is so ridiculously negative?
Having student debt doesn't justify throwing away the rest of your residual income
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nikanj • today at 6:19 AM
-If I don’t gamble, I’ll live my whole life as a poor serf
-If I gamble and lose, the same wage cuck life awaits me
-If I gamble and win, I may actually ascend and have the kind of life I aspire to
What's the ev for going to college once you factor in graduation rates?
People that get two or three years of college debt and no diploma have a big hole to fill and a small shovel.
Anyway, I think ev isn't the right tool to model gambling behavior; dollar utility isn't linear. It's more about a small spending for a large potential. But then you get into repeated small wagers and such.