I scratched a lottery ticket and won $150. It took 20 seconds to buy it, 19 seconds to get back to my car, 8 seconds to scratch, and about three minutes to redeem. So that’s approx $37 a minute, or $4.4 million a year if you extend it out to a 40-hour work week.

Does that count?

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