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# The Sinking Ship Analogy

## Quote

> "You're on a sinking ship and there's 10 lifeboats... one of them is watertight and the other nine have holes in the bottom of them. Find the one that's watertight, put the entire family in that one, and then you live."

— [[entity-michael-saylor]]

## Context

A vivid analogy explaining why diversifying across flawed assets — various fiat currencies, weak companies, depreciating stores of value — is a **fatal** strategy during a systemic crisis. Distributing your family across all 10 lifeboats guarantees most of them drown.

The metaphor reinforces [[claim-diversification-is-for-ignorance]]: when one option is structurally superior, concentration is not just optimal — it is survival.