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Continuing a course of action because of previously invested resources rather than future value. Netflix's watch history knows your pain.
Keeps people in bad relationships, failing businesses, and endless Netflix binges.
Casinos literally design their environments to exploit this bias. Those chips aren't just plastic—they're sunk cost generators.
"The only thing more predictable than human irrationality is humans' surprise at being irrational."