“If your retirement plan is to win the lottery, you will have to work forever as a greeter at the local shopping center and eat cat food for supper.”
“This might work. We might survive. We might not have to eat cat food.”
“Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.”
“After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.”
“I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.”
“Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.”