Venting Life is like waking up in a casino you can't leave

[R. A.]

There's a bunch of different games to play, but as you know the odds you'll win any of them are horribly poor. The cards, dice, levers and everything you interact with are also randomly really heavy, or hot, or electrified or other messed up, unpredictable unpleasant things. But pretty much everyone else is playing, and in the corner of your eye you're always seeing someone win, or you hear it in the distance. And everyone plays with a credit card, which you also woke up with but don't really know how many credits are on it, but you need them to eat and drink and use the bed which there is for some reason. So even if you're sick of playing these horrid, often painful games almost no one ever wins, if you want any degree of comfort you have to just keep playing. Most likely to lose, but maybe, maybe, to win.

I have no idea if the analogy carries, but hopefully this late-night musing resonates with someone...

 

[catflowers]

i am done good night everyone casinos are fucking scams the house always wins

 

[obafgkm]

Life is like you sign up to Twitter, hoping to talk freely. Then for no obvious reasons, Twitter suspends your account, asks you to confirm this and that that you are human.... If you don't, you can't even access your account to delete it, and become stuck between life and death.

 

[jodes2]

Oh the games we play. I was just told by a Redditor to hang on for another year because things will get better. Like I haven't already been doing that for the last 20years

 

[[HNO]]

hitting the jackpot=dying

 

[Arvinneedstodie]

Not only is it a casino, but its also super rigged and unfair. Some players starts off with a lot more chips than others, some starts off with negative chips and have to go break their backs to pay back debt. Worst of all, not everyone is a player. There are those who belong to the house, those who make the rules, those who make the real profits, all the while watching and manipulating the floor as they like.

After some time you realize the insanity of it all. With all the possibilities and resources we have, this dystopian casino is all that we built? If we all just stop for a moment and realize that we are born free, so how did the casino managed to enslaved us into their games and chained us to their floor? Can't we all somehow come together and stop fighting each other, because we are not each other's enemies, we are all enslaved here together. Then I realized that no one takes this shit seriously, people are happy being slaves, especially the slaves who have a little more chips than the others.

 

[Euthanza]

Life's gambling, we're gambling with time, politic (the very power that determines much our life) is gambling, everything is gambling, the sure way to get nothing for something.

• Quit while you're ahead. ...
• "Hoping to recoup is what ruins the gambler." ...
• "Money won is twice as sweet as money earned." ...
• "If you don't gamble, you'll never win." –

 

[FuneralCry]

Very well said. But of course the game is completely unnecessary, there was never a need for the game to be a thing in the first place. I always believe that it's better not to play at all.