"The lottery is a poor tax on the hopeless and ignorant, if you’re ok with THAT, so be it....."

You must be rich enough not to find value in fantasizing about a better, otherwise unattainable one. It is sad that lotteries, which have been popular in poor countries since forever, offer so much fantasizing to so many.

But you are wondering off into two wrongs making a right. You have not defended stealing from the lottery, just changed the subject.