Who Is The Lottery A Good Idea?

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Is lottery a good idea? Well it is to the inventor because right now he is rich and some people become addictive and spend allot of money in the lottery ticket but there’s always a lucky person who wins it

The inventor of the lottery: Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American author. She was a popular writer in her time, and her work has received increased attention from literary critics in recent years. She influenced Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.[1]
She is best known for the short story "The Lottery" (1948), which reveals a secret, sinister underside to a bucolic America village, and for The Haunting of Hill House (1959), which is widely considered to be one of the

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