You can't win.
You can't break even either.
Sounds like a tongue-in-cheek description of the first two laws of thermodynamics:
- 0th law: there is a game
- 1st law: you can't win
- 2nd law: you can't break even
- 3rd law: You can't even quit the game
Solutions:
- become smaller
- slow time
- lose gracefully
Alternatively