你认识的中了彩票的人，后来变了吗？
People who know someone who won the lottery, how did they change?
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People who know someone who won the lottery, how did they change?
你认识的中了彩票的人，后来变了吗？
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Girl that was jumping from one shitty job to another. Did win not a massive amount but enough to be able to study 2-3 years without having to work. Was able to land a good job and nice paycheck thanks to her studies, so basically changed her life for better.
认识个姑娘之前过着从一份狗屎工作换到另一份狗屎工作干的生活。彩票赢的钱不多，但足够支撑她念两三年的书而不用赚钱。因为学业有成，所以拿到了一份好的工作，薪酬也不错，基本上就是让她的生活变得更好了。
Now THAT is money well spent
这才叫把钱花在刀刃上。
That’s awesome, but also so frustrating that many capable people aren’t able to take the time they need to really advance themselves, just because of money.
这真不错，同时也很令人烦恼，毕竟有太多有能力的人因为没钱，没办法花时间去真正地让自己进步。
This is what I fantasize about. I would love to know what it feels like to learn without the stress of needing to make money— didn’t even have that in high school. I don’t have any desire to get rich and lazy, I want to have the money to pursue genuine interests and contribute more to society
我就总是喜欢幻想这种事情。我真想知道不需要扛着赚钱的压力去自由地念书是种什么样的感觉——甚至高中的时候我都得担心这种事情。我没有任何变有钱然后开始犯懒的渔网，我只想要有足够的钱，让自己能追求自己的兴趣爱好，并且为社会做出更多的贡献。
He bought a house, got sober, and invested a bunch of time into hobbies. He went from being a good guy to a great guy. Super proud of him.
他买了一栋房子，戒了酒，然后把时间都花在了爱好上面。他从一个好人变成了一个伟大的人。我特别为他感到自豪。
I love a story where the winner didn't make a bunch of poor choices and seemingly end up worse.
我很喜欢这种赢了彩票的人没做出什么糟糕的选择，最后把自己的生活变得更差的故事。
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I’m sure there are plenty of examples like this, but we only hear about the people who fuck it up in spectacular fashion.
肯定也有很多这样的例子，但是我们只会听说那种烂到无以复加的结局。
“他们过上了安宁的生活，并且做出了明智的投资”，这根本就算不上是什么吸引人点进去的标题，你懂吧？
This the kinda of story I didn’t expect lol, especially the getting sober part
这种故事我还真没想到，尤其是他甚至戒了酒。
Studies have shown (well specifically rodent studies, but it applies) that substance use is associated with boredom and unhappiness. A lone mouse in an empty cage consistently picked cocaine-laced water over regular water every time, but mice in a massive, high enrichment, community enclosure almost never picked the drugged water (repeated of course, not just one trial).
研究已经证明（是针对啮齿类动物的研究，但是人类也适用），无聊和不开心与药物滥用相关。空笼子里的孤单老鼠每次都会选择含可卡因的水，而不是普通的水，但是在物质丰富，社区温暖的环境下的老鼠们，几乎从来都不会选择加了药的水（当然是重复测试的，并非只有一次）。
有钱，并且选择投入你的住房和饮食保障，爱好，社交生活，以及环境（而不是寻求那些短暂、高满足度的事情，比如买豪车，或者溜更多的冰），这能很简单地让你感到成功，从而让你失去获得快感的兴趣。你不沾酒都已经过得这么开心了，为什么还要喝醉呢？
“Money doesn’t buy happiness” well in most aspects it certainly does
“金钱买不来快乐”，说实话从绝大多数角度来说还真就买得来。
It buys time, which is more valuable than anything else.
金钱能买来时间，这可比任何东西都更加珍贵。
那可是你想怎么挥霍就怎么挥霍的时间！
This is why people who work a ton and have money still aren’t happy
所以那些成天工作并且很有钱的人还是不开心。
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They bought a big house, went on loads of vacations, years later had to sell the house and downsize. In the end spent every last penny
我认识的人买了栋大房子，到处去度假，结果几年之后只能把房子卖了换小房子住。最后花掉了身上的每一分钱。
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This is my nightmare. I'm not bad with money and you get money like that it's relatively easy to grow even if you don't know what to do. Imagine winning millions and then one day sitting around and going "Man, remember when I was rich?" would absolutely kill me inside.
这就是我自己最怕的事情。我不会乱花钱，并且有这样一笔巨款，就算你不知道该干什么，这笔钱也会自己慢慢变多的。想象一下你赢了几百万，然后有一天坐在地上说，“哥们，记得我还有钱那阵子吗？”我会难受死的。
A guy I went to high school with won the lottery in his early thirties. He bought the low-income housing block he grew up in and his mother still lived in, completely renovated it, and kept it low income housing.
我上高中的时候的同学在他三十出头的时候赢了彩票。他把自己小时候住着、妈妈现在还住着的那个低端社区买了下来，彻底翻新了一遍，然后继续以低价出租。
我不知道他剩下的钱拿去做什么了，但就是这一笔钱，他就改变了很多家庭的生活。
She divorced her husband, a baggage handler for American Airlines if I recall, and married a rich flashy Cuban guy.
她跟丈夫离婚了，没记错的话她丈夫是美航一个搬行李的。然后她嫁给了一个花里胡哨的古巴佬。
但她确实分了一半奖金给她的前夫。
Idk that sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
不好说，我觉得这算是挺公平的交易。
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I worked with a lady who was two cubicles down from me. She would buy the lottery religiously and one Friday our boss said to her, “I laugh you win the $55million and come in on Monday and quit.” Well…. She sure did. She was the first solo winner in my city and she quit Monday morning… she and her husband didn’t change much. They just remodelled their home and continue to live simple lives. Both are retired. She was 42 when she won. This was about 10years ago now.
我同事里之前有位女士，离我两个工位。她像宗教一样热忱地买彩票，有个周五我们的老板跟她说，“你要是哪天中了个5500万然后星期一来找我辞职就太可乐了。”说实话……她还真中了。她是我这座城市里第一个独中大奖的人，周一早上她就离职了……她和她老公没怎么变。他们只是把房子重新装修了一下，接着过简单的生活。两个人都退休了。中彩票那年她42岁。那已经是差不多10年前了。
I worked in retail with a woman who won just over $1 mil in the US in 1998. She got laid off from her job as a checker the very next day. The HR lady said she had never seen someone so happy being laid off, and this was about 20 days before Christmas. She became a stay at home mom and her husband, who was working at 7-11 and absolutely loved to talk to people, took his dream job - selling cars. I saw him about 8 years age and he said they still lived in the same house and he was still selling cars for the same dealership.
我干零售的时候，有个女同事在1998年赢了一百万出头。她第二天就被从收银员的岗位上辞退了。当时的人事还说她这辈子也没见过有人被辞退了还这么开心，这还是圣诞节之前的20天。她成为了全职妈妈，而她的老公，那个在7-11工作、特别喜欢和别人聊天的人，最后干上了他梦寐以求的工作——卖车。我八年前见过他一次，他说他仍然住在之前那栋房子里，并且也仍然在给之前的经销商卖车。
Won two million dollars and paid off their debt plus made a few large purchases. Friends, relatives, churches, and charities found out and asked for loans and hand outs. Eventually, the money ran out and they ended up stealing a bit from a some organization they were the treasurer of because they wanted to chase that high again. I can't remember if they did jail time or just did community service but they had to sell some things and ended up only slightly better off than they were before winning the lottery.
赢了两百万美元，还清了债务，还搞了几笔大手笔买卖。朋友，亲戚，教会，还有慈善机构发现了他们，找他们借款，让他们捐钱。最后这笔钱都花没了，他们偷走了负责财务的某个组织里的一些钱，因为他们想要再风光一次。我忘了他们是坐了监狱还是只做了社区服务了，但也确实不得不变卖了些东西，最后他们过的日子仅仅比赢彩票之前稍微好一点。
Oof. I’ve seen a few comments on other lottery posts talking about how a million dollars (or two in this case) is good money, but it’s not great money to win. You can easily spend a million dollars. Kind of wild to think about really.
哎哟。我也见过其他有关彩票的帖子里面的评论，他们说一百万美元（或者两百万）虽然不错，但是赢了也不是什么大事。毕竟把一百万美元花干净也很容易。仔细想想的话还真有道理。
My wife and I buy lottery tickets when the jackpot gets huge. We like to dream of moving to Yosemite Valley and climbing until we can't walk anymore.
我和我老婆喜欢在奖池变得特别高的时候买彩票。我们喜欢梦想搬到优胜美地去，然后爬山直到爬不动。
但我也经常会想，如果我们“只”赢了一百万的奖金该怎么办。确实是笔巨款，但又不算是“把工作都辞了，这辈子就住在优胜美地”那种程度的巨款。拿到一百万的话，交完了税之后我的计划也只是还干净债务，然后接着过自己的生活，只不过财务上的压力会少很多。
编辑：希望大家记住一点，赢得百万美元奖金并不意味着到你手上的就是一百万美元。
If I won a million dollars I'd use it towards getting a house. Simple as that
我要是能赢一百万，那我就买一栋房子，就这么简单。
Unpopular opinion: When you win the lottery do not give anyone any money. Maybe pay off your parents house if you win the big lotteries otherwise everyone will suddenly try to be your friend and the money will disappear in no time.
不受欢迎的意见：如果你真的赢了彩票，那你最好不要把这笔钱分给任何人。如果你赢了笔大的，那或许你可以给父母的房子还清贷款，但要不然的话所有人就都会忽然之间过来想当你朋友，这笔钱一下子就会消失掉的。
My former boss won it. Divorced his wife, married some plastic filled new lady. Ended up divorcing her too and ODing on cocaine somewhere in the Caribbean.
我之前的老板赢了这笔钱。跟老婆离了婚，娶了个浑身硅胶的新老婆。最后跟她也离了，在加勒比海的某个地方天天吸可卡因吸到过量。
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What a nice end
多么美好的结局
He went out doing what he loved
他只是在做爱做的事
Snorting cocaine off a strippers ass and ODing in the Caribbean
指在加勒比海上吸脱衣舞娘屁股上的可卡因吸到麻
The American dream!
这就是美国梦！
A friend’s mom won in like 1989. This was before you could take the lump sum. After taxes her payout was $37,000/yr for 25 years. She quit her job, thinking she’d be rich, but didn’t realize she was making less than her job paid, and ended up going back to work a few years later because of insurance etc.
有个朋友的妈妈在1989年赢了一笔钱。那时候你还不能把钱一口气拿到手。扣了税之后，她中的彩是每年37000美元，持续25年。她先是辞了工作，以为自己已经有钱了，但她没发现的是自己的彩票挣得还没工作多，于是几年后因为保险之类的问题还是回去接着工作了。
There’s also the fact that you have a lot more time to spend when you aren’t working, time that will often be used spending money.
还有一点就是如果你不上班，那么你就会有更多的时间可以自由支配，这些时间通常都要被用来花掉你的钱。
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Coworker won 250k on a scratch-it. He ended up with 170k. He bought a house and a used car, then took his kids to disneyland. Then the story gets weird.
同事刮刮乐刮了个二十五万。到手十七万。买了栋房子和一辆二手车，带孩子们去了迪斯尼乐园玩。然后故事就开始变得奇怪了。
他想要搬到另一个州，所以他把房子给卖了，住在了另一个州的“廉价酒店”。结果他到最后也没找到房子。钱都花在住廉价酒店上面了。遇上了大问题，并且问题变得越来越严重。最终他母亲去世了，于是他回到了家乡，住在他母亲的老房子里。可怜的混蛋。
Well, the biggest Powerball winner in Australia (over $100 million) just kept going to her nursing job because she said she likes nursing. Not surprisingly, she made use of the option to remain anonymous. Apart from saying she bought new place to move into, no plans to do anything particularly flashy and especially not financially irresponsible.
澳大利亚最大的强力球得主（超过一亿美元）还在干她的护理工作，因为她说她喜欢当护士。并不令人意外的是，她选择了保持匿名。她买了栋新房子住，但没打算做什么显眼的事情，尤其没有做财务上不负责的事情。
I see that people with big money that still do some job are happier than those that “quit and travel the world”.
我发现那些赢了大奖却仍然在工作的人，普遍比“辞了工作环游世界”要更幸福。
I'd probably leave my current job. Spend my time volunteering, working out in nature, helping kids. The kinds of things that I can't afford to do at the moment because of my need to earn money to support my family.
我可能也会扔掉这份工作吧。把时间花在当志愿者，在自然中锻炼，以及帮助其他孩子上面。那些因为要挣钱支撑家庭，我现在暂时还无力承担的事情上。
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My friend's aunt won about 800k (which can be a generational-change sum if managed correctly), she gave her immediate family 1k each (about 15 persons), paid her and her husbands student loans in full, all of her debt and house mortgage and decided to invest the rest, she still works at a school as a head teacher and my friend tells me that her mentality is something like "what easy comes, easy goes" so she doesn't spend the money lavishly.
我朋友的姑姑赢了差不多80万（如果管理得当的话这笔钱会随着时间变化），她先是给了近亲每人一千（差不多15个人），全额还清了她和她老公的学生贷、房贷和其他债务，然后把剩余的资金拿去投资了。她仍然在学校当班主任，我朋友跟我说她的态度大概是，“来得容易，去得也容易”，所以她是不会大手笔地花掉这些钱的。
I know a guy that won $1 million. It ended up being way less than that because of taxes. I didn't know him before he won but he was older, like late 50s, but he didn't stop working. Still a fabricator and the nicest guy. Apparently he didn't buy anything big, still lives in his small house and drives a beater. Couldn't have had a nicer guy win it honestly
我认识一个赢了一百万的。因为税收的缘故，最后到手的少了很多。他中奖之前我不认识他，但他年纪比较大，五十岁后半，但没有停止工作。仍然是个装配工，是我认识的最好的人。显然他没买什么豪华的东西，仍然住在自己的小房子里，开着旧车。说实话没什么比他更好的人能赢这个奖了。
Guy I worked with asked what would I do if I won a lot of lottery money, I said tell noone, see a financial planner, do what makes me happy. Later he brought a nice 4wd and left and a while later I heard he was just fishing in Queensland. Tell noone.
之前有个同事问我，如果有一天我忽然中了一笔巨款我会怎么做，我说谁都别告诉，找个财务咨询师，然后干点让我自己开心的事。后来他买了辆不错的越野车，离职了，再后来我听说他在昆士兰钓鱼。谁都没告诉。
Went to school with a guy whose parents won about $1m. This was in the early 90’s.
有个同学的父母赢了差不多100万。那是90年代初了。
爸爸还清了贷款，把孩子送进了私立高中，然后接着工作。
我最后听说的时候，他们俩都退休了，但还生活在原来的房子里。要是我也赢了一大笔钱，那我大概也会做类似的事。
That's the thing; $1m is "pay off your house and retire very comfortably one day" money. It isn't give up your day job money and a lot of folk clearly don't understand that.
这就是关键所在：一百万美元只是够“还干净房贷，然后等某一天舒舒服服地退休”的钱。可不是直接放弃手头工作的钱，好多人显然没弄明白。
I won 5 bucks once. Minimal impact.
我有一次赢了五美元。啥影响没有。
You spent it all at once, classical pitfall for lotto winners
你把所有的奖金一下子都花掉了。这是彩票中奖者的经典陷阱。
That and I imagine their family members/friends all found out so they came running for a hand out
太对了，我在想想你的家人朋友全都发现你中了五块钱，于是蜂拥而至过来找你分一笔。
A man comes home and asks his wife, “if I won the lottery, what would you do?”
有个男的回家问他老婆，“我要是中了彩票，你会怎么做？”
她回答，“分一半，然后把你踹得远远的。”
于是他给了她五块钱，然后说，“拿着。收拾东西滚吧。”
Not the BIG prize, but they won 250K. They are farmers and they paid off all their debt and invested the rest in their farm. Better barn, tractors, hired help, etc. They were smart with it.
不算什么大奖，但是赢了二十五万。他们都是农民，于是还清了债务，把剩下的钱投进了自己的农场。更好的谷仓，拖拉机，雇了帮手之类的。这笔钱他们花得很精明。
Reading a few of the “unfortunate” big winner replies really reinforces the advice to
读了几个“不幸”的中了大奖的回复之后，我觉得以下建议更适用了：
第一，保守中大奖的秘密（哪怕是对家人）；第二，立刻寻求金融咨询师或者律师的帮助；第三，详见第一点
Didnt win the lottery but I know a man who inherited 2 milion from a great aunt. Quit his job and travelled ended up in thailand where he spent all of it on women and booze. Cam back after 20 years without a penny to his name. I saw him some years ago in a bar. He works as a mechanic now and lives in a dingy flat. I asked him if he regretted spending it all and ge said no "I lived like a king for 20 years" you cant grumble at that ive lived nearly 50 years as a porper.
我自己没中过彩票，但我认识一个从姑奶奶那继承了两百万的人，辞了工作全世界旅行，最后到了泰国，把所有的钱都花在了女人和酒上面。二十年后回国，身无分文。几年前我在酒吧看见过他。他现在当技工，住一栋破烂的公寓。我问他把这些钱都花了后不后悔，他说不，“过去二十年我活得像个国王。”真是完全无法反驳，毕竟我将近五十年都只是个苦力。
I mean, I get the sentiment, but if he invested that, it would be a stable income of almost $100,000 a year. You could live like a minor Duke for pretty much forever in Thailand with that
我想说，我能明白这种感觉，但如果他愿意把这笔钱拿去投资，那么回报将会是稳定的每年接近10万美元。拿这笔钱在泰国，你完全可以当一个小公爵之类的东西当一辈子了。
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She was already retired, so she gave like 100K to each of her children, gifted 10K to each of her nieces /nephews, bought a nicer apartment for herself and her husband, and mostly leads the same life as before. She still has the same friends, and she still has coffee with her sisters every weekday.
她自己已经退休了，所以她给每个孩子分了差不多十万，每个外甥和侄子也分了一万，给自己和老公买了一栋更好的公寓，差不多仍旧过着和之前一样的生活。她的朋友还是之前那一批，每天也还在和之前的姐妹们一起喝咖啡。
但是现在，她会带着自己的孙辈们出门玩，花钱让他们参加有趣的课外/暑期活动（冲浪，水肺潜水什么的），并且偶尔也会给亲近的人或者她自己买点好东西。
总地来说，她没变。她从来都慷慨而善良，到今天也是。现在她可以多花点钱去她觉得重要的东西，于是她就这么做了。并且她还有很多爱着她的家人们，也有赢来的一大笔钱留给自己，所以我们都知道她能够安度晚年了。
My friend won just under $30 million, and dropped out of college to learn to manage her money herself, then finished off her degree online and moved from the East Coast to the West Coast to start her dream career. She invested most of her winnings, works a 9-5 job she loves, and got married and has a couple of kids now. Her personality didn’t change at all, she’s goofy as hell with her friends, and an absolute sweetheart.
我朋友赢了不到三千万美元，于是直接从大学退学，自己管理这笔钱去了，在线上拿到了毕业证，然后从东海岸搬到了西海岸，去追求她梦想的事业。把绝大多数的钱都拿去投资，干着她喜欢的朝九晚五的工作，结了婚，现在有了几个孩子。她的性格一点都没变，和朋友在一起的时候仍然蠢得要命，还是那个可爱的甜心。
A workmate won the lottery, quit the job and spend most of his time traveling around the world. He is now broke and in depression
有个同事中了彩票，辞了工作，把时间都花在了环游世界上面。现在破产了在家玉玉。
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I knew a guy who quit his job as a factory worker and went back to college to get a doctorate in music performance and composition. Played a mean jazz bass. Happiest guy I ever met.
我认识个家伙辞了工厂工人的工作，回到大学读了音乐表演和作曲的博士学位。爵士贝斯弹得也一般。但他是我认识的最幸福的人。
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A friends parents won. They put the money into a savings account and never told the kids until they were in their 20s. Basically sat them down and said ‘we don’t actually need to worry about money’.
我有个朋友的父母中了彩票。把钱全都存进了存款账户里，直到孩子们二十多岁才告诉他们。差不多就是让他们坐下来，然后跟他们说，“其实我们用不着担心钱的事儿。”
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感觉是非常负责的应对方式。