We've seen a fair number of billion-dollar sweepstakes lottery wins in recent years:
And apparently after so many eye-popping lottery wins, we're all just sort of becoming ... numb to it?
People aren't as impressed by Wednesday night's $1 billion Powerball drawing because the massive 10-digit jackpot has become all too common — with only about half as many people flocking to buy tickets as they did a couple of years ago, according to experts and shop owners.
Most of the people sticking around are regular lotto players.
"It's known as jackpot fatigue. People are less excited over a large prize than they used to be because those big numbers are old news," Victor Matheson, a professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, told The Post.
Oh, right, "jackpot fatigue." Such a common ailment! People look at a billion freakin' dollars and they're like:
I guess on the one hand it's understandable. Throwing money at the lotto isn't a sound investment strategy and gambling is a serious addiction that ruins so many lives ... plus, there's not the pressing sense of urgency about it that there used to be:
"They realize it'll be a billion dollars over and over and over, three or four times a year, so you don't have to come," said Gautam Das, 62, a clerk at the BP Gas station in Bayside, Queens. "You can catch the next one … So no urgency, and no big deal."
Yup. You got a chance to win a billion bucks, but you're just not feeling it that day, so you're like:
Meanwhile, there were no winners reported for the Wednesday night Powerball jackpot, ballooning the prize to $1.23 billion.
I'm sure at least one of you will rush down to get a ticket, right?
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