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De Koffieconcurrent

De koffieconcurrent was a shop that sold very affordable cups of coffee in the hallways of the Willem de Kooning Academy. It's business model was as simple as it was mad: To sell cheap coffee and to buy lottery scratchcards with the proceedings at the end of the day. The potential for insane returns and soaring profits was tempting and seemingly within reach for the duration of the month. After a month of running the Koffieconcurrent we made 24 euros with the sales of coffee. After investing these in scratchcards the balance totalled 22 euros.

Lottery as a businessmodel

There seem to be interesting parrallels:

- artists trying to be discovered through calls, paid entries to competitions etc. willing to work unpaid in the hope of fame/money/career
- people running tech-startups in the hopes of attracting venture capital or being bought by google/amazon/yahoo
- gamblers willing to cut losses upon losses in the hopes of striking this one lucky number.

Eventhough most participants in these 'lotteries' lose, they keep participating. inspired by the few examples of those that became lucky.

Gamblers betting on games/lotteries often rely on pseudo-rationalization to justify why they of all people will win. Relying on lucky numbers, detecting patterns etc.

The same goes for start-ups and artists. Rationalizing their marginal existence and low odds on pseudo-rational reasoning. "If i work this job unpaid.. i can get a paid one next time"