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“Siri, what is the”sunk cost fallacy?”
“The sunk cost fallacy is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it,” says Christopher Olivola, an assistant professor of marketing at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and the author of a new paper on the topic published in the journal Psychological Science. “That effect becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off,” Olivola writes.
This is why a lot of people still believe in nonsense like trickle down economics or the wisdom and efficacy of the so-called “war on drugs.” Let’s take “magic” mushrooms for example. This is just hippy stuff right? This is about the kids in the Grateful Dead t-shirts and how they’re all high on the illegal drugs and taking pot right?”
Well, no.
If you ask any credible psycho-pharmacologist what Americans get wrong about drugs – they’ll probably say, “all of it – or most of it.”
For instance, no one told any kids in the compulsory DARE “classes” in public schools that psilocybin is miracle drug for those suffering from PTSD. It turns out a lot of the things we told our kids would kill them are now saving their lives and helping them heal.
Cops and prosecutors say Ketamine’s a “club drug.” They never talk about it’s rather remarkable rates of effectiveness treating and even curing things like depression and PTSD. And that’s the sunk cost fallacy – it’s when you’ve been singing the same bullshit song for decades and it’s way too late to learn a new tune. On the other hand, a lot of people can change tracks when the evidence suggests this is the right course of action. So, if you used to crusade against marijuana but now use cannabis for your joint pain or glaucoma you can consider yourself a part of the evolutionary process.