If I’m going to hand my money to a casino, I’m going down while doing some math. I typically allocate about $300 and make it last several hours. Upon returning from the casino, when people ask how much I lost, I reply that I gained $300 of entertainment—about the cost of dinner, wine, and opera in my hometown. Curious, then, that nobody asks, when you return from the theater, “How much did you lose?”
