Rule No.57 - Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win

Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment, Lazarus becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years due to rejuvenation treatments.

I must admit, I have never read any Robert A. Heinlein books so I can't tell if this was one of his ground breaking sayings, or if he had lots and they just thought this one was the best to put on "rules to live by". Kinda random i think, but hey.

So my much deeper side thinks this quote is doing like a "you can't expect to win anything if you didn't put anything into it" kind of vibe, even if you know there might be some rigging. Maybe the rigging goes in your favour, but if you didn't try, you'd have lost anyway without even starting. For example, you can't expect to make millions or be successful in your job, if you don't put anything in. If you just chill behind your desk and write blogs all day, you not gonna get that raise. Norman on the other side is.

That came out like a whole lot of blah blah blah. Hope you get what I was trying to say. Alternatively Lazarus could have just been a big gambler and loved to bet. Just saying.

Suze

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