Hesed Ojieh explains how money spent on lotteries, alcohol, and payday loans leaves poor neighborhoods entirely, flowing to wealthier individuals and outside businesses instead of staying in the community. This drain prevents reinvestment in local infrastructure and creates a cycle where the environment continuously loses wealth rather than building it.
The bad thing and the worst thing about all these poverty-driven places is that the money leaves that environment and goes into the hand of a wealthy person. So every dollar you spend in these 3 places, it leaves your hand, it exists, exits your community, and it expands somewhere else. So when you go to lottery, you go to liquor, you go to get money from the paid day loans. Money is leaving your hand, and that money that leaves your hand is not used to build your community, good roads and all of that. It's not going to be that, because if that environment is elevated, then it no longer becomes an ecosystem, a system that takes money.
