Instant Millions Can’t Halt Winners’ Grim Slide – New York Times

Everyone has dreams of winning the lottery – who hasn’t sat around and said, “Man, if I win the MegaMillions, I’d never have to work again, and all my family and friends won’t have to work either”.

Then you read stories like that NYTimes story, and you wonder, what would really happen? Would friends and family start ripping you off? Would you become a drug addict alcoholic shithead?