• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You are assuming Sunk Cost Fallacy only applies to "“throwing good money after bad”.

    I did not make any assumptions. I simply gave one good example. Nowhere in my comment did I say that money is the only possible sunk cost.

    How do you know that the dog has zero expectation?

    Because he almost literally says so! The one dog tells him his bone isn’t there, and the other dog doesn’t disagree. His “yes” is implied in his sentence fragment: “[Yes,] but I can’t stop now.” He agrees it’s not there, but says he “can’t stop”. It’s a stretch to say that’s an example of the sunk cost fallacy at all, let alone a “a great example”. I still think anyone reading this comic would not come away with a proper understanding of it.

    I’m not the only one who thinks this. Hornface made the same comment and got highly upvoted. To think otherwise is just plainly wrong.