From a purely probabilistic point of view, laying aside personal skill at anything in particular, the odds of a randomly selected lottery player winning the jackpot are probably better than those of a randomly selected garage or dorm-room tinkerer being the next Jobs or Bezos.
So yeah, you probably can’t breed out lottery-playing without also seriously damaging the entrepreneurial spirit.
From a purely probabilistic point of view, laying aside personal skill at anything in particular, the odds of a randomly selected lottery player winning the jackpot are probably better than those of a randomly selected garage or dorm-room tinkerer being the next Jobs or Bezos.
So yeah, you probably can’t breed out lottery-playing without also seriously damaging the entrepreneurial spirit.