The World’s Favorite Tax on Hope: How National Lotteries Became the Planet’s Shared Delusion
The Global Gospel According to Six Little Numbers By “Lucky” Matteo Volkov, roaming correspondent and reluctant statistician Somewhere between the duty-free cigarette counter and the overpriced espresso machine at Istanbul’s new mega-airport, I watched a Kazakh oil engineer, a Filipino nurse, and a German backpacker queue for the same thing: a slip of thermal paper…