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by contravariant 2899 days ago
At some point you do need to stop baling water and actually plug the hole though.
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Nah. The bridge crew all have executive lifeboats. No biggie if the ship goes down.
To completely and hyperbolically torture this metaphor, as long as you whip the galley slaves to row fast enough so that you can jump to safety on "Short Term Stock Gain" Island, you'll be fine.
They should teach this at MBA school. But they don't.