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Comment by bruce343434

3 years ago

The money is already gone. Now you have some thing that you must evaluate the worth of on its own. If you muddy that evaluation with "but it cost so much" that's the sunk cost fallacy: clinging onto a thing because it was so hard to get even though it's subpar.

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