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i never meant to start a fire
make me choose - @gilligould asked: Nacho Varga or Jesse Pinkman
onlyalittlebookworm reblogged
that’s ☝️ the sunk cost fallacy. the fallacy ☝️ of sunk ☝️ costs. ☝️ it’s what gamblers do, 🫲 they throw good money 🫲 after bad, 🫲 thinking they can 👋 👋 turn their luck around. it’s like, “i’ve already spent this much money, 👐or time, 👐 whatever. 👐 i gotta keep going!” 👐 no, there’s no reward 👐 at the end of this game.
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If Hadestown has a moral, she says, then it’s “you have to try, you have to have hope, not because success is a given – it’s not. Orpheus fails. We heroicise” – here she breaks off to apologise that jet lag has led to her making up words – “we heroicise Orpheus not because he succeeds but because he tries, and that endeavour alone is worthwhile. How to live, and not merely survive, is to believe things could change.”