Stop Playing the Lottery

  Unearned wealth will fade away.

Alejandro Garay

 

WE LOVE GET-RICH-QUICK STORIES.
We can't get enough of the rags-to-riches trope. The Cinderellas, the little orphan Annies, Aladdins, Billionaire love stories, the Powerball winners. The long lost wealthy relative who just bequeathed you millions.
The fantastical prospect of a sudden exorbitant windfall entices even the best of us. Rags-to-riches tales are harmless as long as the consumer acknowledges one thing:
They are lies.
Yes, one out of 292 mill...