Lottery and fate

This is clearly -EV.

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I bought 40 tickets with my roomates.

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And thats just a waste of money.

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A. Does the possibility of the existence of fate, miracles, divine intervention, etc. give the lotto a higher EV than otherwise would be expected?


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For god to increase the EV of one person, he has to decrease the EV of another, so if you think this is possible, then you would want to consider your EV acutally going down if you are not god's favourite