The Sunk Cost Fallacy: An Energy Sink Hole

David O'Hanlon
2 min readOct 2, 2022

​The Sunk Cost Fallacy describes our inclination to follow through with or continue with an activity simply because we have already invested time, effort, money, or some combination of these three into it. Alarmingly, this inclination persists whether or not the current costs of the activity outweigh the benefits.

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David O'Hanlon

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