Life is like a Casino Everyone knows that in casino gambling in the long run the House Always Wins.
But, since life maintains a status away from equilibrium, life is kind of  continually breaking the Rules of the House and it's been like that for almost 4 billion years.
When you die the house wins, and the energy within your cells gets returned to the house. But, during your life you extract energy from the environment and hang on to it, until you no longer can.
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