But, to this author, skin in the game is mostly about justice, honor, and sacrifice, things that are existential for humans.

Skin in the game can make boring things less boring. When you have skin in the game, dull things like checking the safety of the aircraft because you may be forced to be a passenger in it cease to be boring. If you are an investor in a company, doing ultra-boring things like reading the footnotes of a financial statement (where the real information

nothing without skin in the game.