When you ask most people what they buy if they
won the lottery,
the answers are typically straightforward.
Buy a house, I guess.
Car spending on my family.
I want to win the money.
As simple as that. Some are tight lipped that secret.
That's a secret. That's a secret.
But if you're Michael Figueroa of Queens,
the answer is a bit more nuanced and philanthropic.
Buy a block, just one of these blocks around here,
somewhere, somewhere where I like all the people,
like, hey, you know, by the block,
refurbished a building, everything nice and neat.
Take care of the old people.
And that's not all he do.
I would probably do something about the problem with the
rodents in the area too.
Figure something out for that.
The money at stake is mind boggling.
The Mega Millions jackpot sits at an estimated $135 million,
Powerball 559,000,000, and the odds of winning are infinitesimally small.
The chances of hitting one of the jackpots is roughly
one in 300 million.
Hitting both? One in 75.6 quadrillion.
You're more likely to have a perfect March Madness bracket,
a feat that has yet to be accomplished.
That's not lost on the people who play,
but it's also not really the point.
Especially when it gets big like that.
What you're buying is more of like the the little
bit of the dream,
right? Of like that's the opportunity that again,
I can have this outsized impact on my lives and
the lives of so many people around me.
And you actually knew the odds of what it took
to win.
No one would actually ever bet into it.
But I'm like, hey, I mean,
I I've, I've had some pretty weird luck in my
life and hopefully this will be one of the ones
that strikes it good for me.