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No. 2218
>>271380
This is the dumbest origin story ever, and I've ready almost every Lightbringer issue.
Seriously, how can you predict what number will win the lottery? It's literally impossible. The numbers are completely random - you could get a team of the greatest mathematicians on earth to study lottery numbers for five years, and they'll pretty much tell you what everyone else will - it's completely random, there's no way to predict it.
But let's just assume that he CAN predict random numbers - he's the greatest mathematician ever and he's found a way to break the laws of psychics - why the heck would the parents abandon THAT?
Sure they got what they wanted, they won the lottery, but why stop there? It doesn't take much of a logical leap to figure out "hey, if this kid can win us the lottery, imagine what else he could do!" I mean, this kid can calculate RANDOM NUMBERS and see which ones will win, there's virtually no limit to what he could do.
If you were unimaginative, you could just play the lottery again, but it doesn't stop there - you could take him to Vegas and get him to count cards, rig slot machines for you, calculate how hard you should throw dice, all kinds of shit, or you could even get him to play the Stock Market, have him tell you which companies will go up/down, what to invest in and shit.
They could become the richest people on earth with this kid and they stopped at some dumb redneck lottery that was probably just in the thousands.
It's like if Biff got the Sports Almanac, won a single bet, and just tossed the thing into the garbage so he could sit around and jerk it all day.
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