FREUD & ERROR

The “sunk cost fallacy” is why you stay in bad situations like “I already paid for this pain.”

✗ FAKE
The sunk cost fallacy is the tendency to continue an endeavor because of past investment, even when stopping would be better. The claim is a loose paraphrase, though the bias is real.

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