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I don't know about you, but I can't live off the proceeds from $10 in index funds. Not even if repeated 100 times.
I was talking about the daydreaming of what to with the winnings. I must be uncreative with my consumption.
Oh. I totally misread your post as advocating putting the money into an index fund instead of buying lottery tickets.
Actually, retiring on the winnings is pretty much what I'd do, too. Though I'd want to diversify holdings over more asset classes than just index funds. When you just want to coast on passive income, it's fair to say even index funds are too risky to put everything in.