We live in a world where you’re not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

Arrington’s line uses an evolutionary, life-or-death contrast to reframe modern professional failure as comparatively low-stakes. By invoking the primal image of being “eaten by a lion,” he highlights how human risk perception can lag behind contemporary realities: we often experience career setbacks with the same visceral fear once reserved for physical threats. The punchline—“you just have to get another job”—argues for resilience and experimentation, especially in entrepreneurial or high-uncertainty environments. The quote implicitly critiques cultures that punish failure socially or financially, suggesting that many modern systems allow recovery, and that recognizing this can encourage bolder innovation and healthier attitudes toward setbacks.