If you were part of an office lottery pool, and you all won 16 mil each, but one person opted not to play that week, would you give him any share of the winnings?

The recent NY Mega Millions jackpot of $319 million was won by a group of New York State IT workers. 7 workers won the jackpot, which comes to a little less than 16 million each person.

I heard on the radio today that there was another guy who was usually in but opted out that week (if he was broke, not in the mood, I’m not sure what and I haven’t googled it yet).

If you won 16 million, would you be willing to chip in a chunk (say one million each person) to throw to the guy who opted out that week? Or do you think it’s his tough luck and a hard lesson learned?