Gambling does not enslave you, it frees you

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Ad agency Cactus posits that winning the Colorado Powerball jackpot would break the chains of dreary, workaday depression. The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 146 million. Hmmm, that's almost a sure thing. If you buy a lottery ticket in Denver, you might as well just quit your job. It's rougher in Minnesota, where the odds are 1 in 175 million, and they know big-time winners will just blow their coin on crap.

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