>>In any event, possessing a stable of options means (among other things) a decision previously made to be prepared.
In view of your liking for options, I suppose you have 100 shirts and 50 pairs of shoes. Cool. But now imagine that you need to go out. You need to decide what to wear.
If you choose to wear a floral pink shirt with top hat and monocle to a football game, the fact that you had 100 better options before you made the decision, is as nothing. And the boy who only has 2 shirts but made a rational decision, has a better result than you.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1