Sunk Cost Fallacy

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconcan't quit now
Executive Parlanceretrospective cost weighting
Scholarly Discourseirrecoverable investment bias
Babel ZenithSunk Cost Fallacy
Origin: Economics

Etymology & Meaning

Continuing based on past investment rather than future value.

In the Boardroom

Finishing a bad movie because you paid for it.

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