And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
An example of the shortcomings of the  philosophy of the age,  exemplified in this poem by Kipling, which was, by and large, work hard without any thought or guile and everything will be okay. 
 Why  risk all of your winnings on a game of pitch-and-toss?  That’s a really stupid move, by the standards of economics and those of common sense– it’s a fast way to lose all of your money and slip down the social ladder. 
 What’s more, not saying anything compounds the situation– you don’t admit that you’ve made a stupid move so you, and others, can’t learn from it, and will probably end up making the same mistake again. 
 Gambling remains a powerful influence in the UK, especially among the least well off–  a report recently found  that the poorest quarter of England’s population spent £13  billion (about 22 billion USD) on high stakes, high speed gambling machines like the one below in 2013. 
 
 Kipling toed the Victorian line so firmly that his poems made perfect tools of social control– encouraging people to throw their money away is a timeless means of doing just that.
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