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The odds of winning a State or National lottery (especially if you factor in the conflicting wishes of millions of people) might be ludicrous, with or without magick, but what about "local" games like Keno (where the pool of people playing is restricted to the occupants of a small bar)?
And what about other kinds of gambling? Hoodoo has a lot of magick for "gambling luck," both "games"-type (cards or dice, etc.) and local lotteries, and some people swear by it. A big difference, though, seems to be the scale of the operation - you aren't any more likely to win $239billion shooting dice on the corner than you are playing PowerBall... but you've probably got a much better shot of walking home with $80 more than you came with. These "folk magick" kinds of charms aren't designed to make The Big Score - they're designed to keep the gambler in the game (or keep them from going broke, at least). If you can make something like that pay off for you, well you might not be able to quit your job and buy your own island, but you might pull in enough to quit worrying for a little while at a time, even invest a little if you want.
My own work with money charms hasn't brought in a whole lot of new money (though it has done that, a little at a time, on an "as needed" basis), but it has really helped us to hold onto money that we already have -- I get paid biweekly, and we used to go into overdraft a LOT every single pay period. Then, after a hoodoo-style money-working, we managed to just scrape by for a couple of months without going to a negative balance - no additional revenue, but it saved us literally hundreds in overdraft penalties. Things just worked out so that credits cleared before debits, discounts and deals popped up right when we needed them, and those deadly nickel'n'dime expenses eased up a little. It only lasted a couple of months, but I think it's time to do another one.
To get back to the ethics/conditioning issue, this style of working really fits with my own feelings about money -- I am pretty firmly anti-capitalist in my beliefs, so I honestly have no real desire to be rich for riches' sake. Even more, though, I hate being in debt, and being beholden to financial institutions who care nothing about the realities of my situation (car repairs, unpaid sickdays, child's birthday...), and all the stress of being forced to spend my days working for someone else so that I can get barely enough of this money to feed my family... so my magick works to ease that stress, to maximize the utility of the money I have so that I don't need to dread my finances, and I'm content with that effect, for the most part. I also feel that, with all the financial forces stacked against you to keep you grasping and desperate, anything you can do magickally to get an edge without further prostituting yourself to the system is worthwhile. While it still acknowledges and consents to the power of money, it strikes me as a way to sidestep at least some of the sacrifices Capital usually demands.
There's my thoughts. Where's my penny? 
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