As of this writing, the Powerball lottery jackpot is sitting at around $1.4 billion. That's an absolutely insane amount of money — as such, people have been talking about it nonstop for the past week.
Part of the reason that the Powerball conversation is everywhere is thanks to social media — if people aren't talking about how much money is in the pot in person, they're talking about it online.
Facebook in particular has been a hotbed of lottery talk, largely thanks to a single image posted to the Livesosa fan page.
If you haven't seen it yet, the picture postulates that if someone were to win the jackpot at $1.3 billion, splitting the winnings evenly across the entire population of the United States (roughly 300 million people) would result in everyone getting $4.3 million.
Sounds great, right? Well before you put a payment down on that new house with the jacuzzi and tennis court, really examine the meme in question:
Slip-up or not, there's really no reason for something like this to go viral — there are calculators embedded into just about every single piece of tech we use these days.
Of course, if someone wins and decides to share all that cash, we'd be fine with taking $4.3 million. Just saying ...
