army1987 comments on Sunk Cost Fallacy - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Z_M_Davis 12 April 2009 05:30PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 November 2011 02:35:02PM 0 points [-]

Is this pattern of thinking ever not a bad idea?

If there are some kind of taxes/fees/whatever on buying/selling stock so that if you buy a certain number of shares and sell them back immediately there's a fraction of your money you don't get back, then...