Lmao, I wonder how much he spent on these lottery tickets.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I highly suggest that nobody repeat what this man has done because he has incurred a massive negative EV and just got extremely lucky. 99/100 times if you play a lottery daily, you will end up not hitting the jackpot even after a long time horizon.
Don't forget that mainstream media tend to give the tiny portion of wins all the coverage and therefore induce survivorship bias.
So lets presumpt and i dont know if this is a Powerball, Megamillions or Lotto 47.Basing off with the draw schedule which is average of 2x per week and if he had stick out on using same combinations and payment (also changes)
but lets presume that it is fixed. So if there are 52 weeks in a year then that would be $36 x 52 = $1,872/ year x 30 years = $56,160 which i could really say that it is really worth of the time and money they've spent.
This is something that you have no doubts if you are in losses because it does able to cover up your expenses on past 3 decades.
With your computation I think I will also do the same, with how he trust the winning combination even it took him 30 years the wait still worthy as he's going to enjoy he's retirement with a huge amount of money, sometimes when luck really permits things to happen for you. It's going to change your life for good.
Hoping that he will use the money the right way, not the same with those people who just enjoy the money in a short span of time.