You have to pick:

That could be really interesting. Greedy people have a much higher chance at death, and the possibility of death would hopefully keep most sane people in check. Of course, there's a good chance that riots would ensue...

Based on the muppets, the professor CAN understand beaker. So I will proceed with the assumption that even though I speak like beaker, people CAN in fact understand me.

sliders much?

One possible workaround: take out billions of dollars, then use a portion of that to hire a mercenary army to protect me from the lottery enforcers.

This sounds familiar.....
Hey Quinn, have we been here before?

On the good side, greedy people would probably lead themselves to their own demise.
On the bad side, the value of/trust in the dollar would crash instantly.