“Oh yes”, the new ubermensch cries, “we should ignore our sunk costs”, and then proceeds to divorce his wife of 10 years and have sex with the pretty girl he saw at the bar last night.
Is this supposed to be a good or bad example? I imagine that a man who has a few kids with his first wife, then divorces her to marry a younger one, and also has a few kids with her, would be quite successful from the evolutionary perspective.
This way we can defend both the sunk costs and ignoring the suck costs as “meta-rational”.
Is this supposed to be a good or bad example? I imagine that a man who has a few kids with his first wife, then divorces her to marry a younger one, and also has a few kids with her, would be quite successful from the evolutionary perspective.
This way we can defend both the sunk costs and ignoring the suck costs as “meta-rational”.
I’ve been convinced! I’ll let my wife know as soon as I’m back from Jamaica!