sunk costs fallacies

A form of sunk costs fallacy — The systematic tendency to allow unrecoverable past investments of time, money, or effort to affect a forward-looking decision, thereby continuing a project even when expected future costs exceed expected future benefits.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of sunk costs fallacy
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