They could create a system that picks one person out of the millions that do it, and then still make a random number generator pick a number that they have to choose out of 1000, and it would still mean that "You have a chance" to win. Sure, a chance, like, but at what odds, and that's only if they were actually checked if it was true.

We all know there was never a chance.

As I understand it these are basically an insurance policy. The promoter takes out a policy detailing the odds of a payout being required, and pay a premium based on the insurer's risk assessment.

And of course the insurer wants to minimise the odds of paying out, and the promoter wants to minimise their premium - so the top prize is usually, as above, near-unwinnable.

We know the best court in the land will fail about 4% of the time. That's the best we can in our nightmarish surveillance state.

Bitcoin you mean irredeemable, you mean they can be released from prison and start creating value. Like we have to keep them in a box and pay for the box.

You mean we should execute them because they are a net resource loss to keep alive in the box yes ?

Did I use redeem wrong? I thought it comes from redemption. Some people cannot be rehabilitated and will always be a danger to others.

We know the best court in the land will fail about 4% of the time.

Lower than I expected but still too high for something irreversible. When the failure rate is 0% then, in my opinion, capital punishment can be justly applied. Since that would never be achieved, no state should have the power to execute. I don't oppose it of religious or moral reasons, I don't think it is wrong in ideal terms, but I don't think flawed and biased people can be trusted with it.

I don't care if the state legal bureacracy can go back in time and know for sure. Still unacceptable. Also, prisons, unacceptable for anything in their current form.

We put people in prison for our societal convenience, we want to kill or enslave them for economic reasons. It is collectively a greater crime than all crimes by all criminals.

There's what 4 million in prison in US alone. In specifically designed places to be open pits of hell. If that is civilisation then it deserve to taste activation of the MAD doctrine.