Virginia’s $1.3 Billion Ghost Jackpot: How America Misplaced a Fortune and Taught the World to Dream—Then Forget
The Virginia Lottery’s latest “$1.3-billion-prize-that-nobody-claimed” kerfuffle has been greeted abroad with the same polite horror reserved for American cheese-in-a-can: fascinating, slightly nauseating, and impossible to look away from. From Lagos to Ljubljana, headlines asked the same question: how do you misplace a life-altering fortune when inflation is devouring paychecks faster than a TikTok trend? The…