Sunk Cost? Also, Tsuyoku Naritai—we can do so much better with the knowledge currently available to us.
This isn’t a sunk cost. It’s not like we used up a large fraction of our paper supply writing the constitution. Rather, it’s a precommitment, a contract, and a schelling point. There are good reasons to be bound be those, so the quote is false.
Sunk Cost? Also, Tsuyoku Naritai—we can do so much better with the knowledge currently available to us.
This isn’t a sunk cost. It’s not like we used up a large fraction of our paper supply writing the constitution. Rather, it’s a precommitment, a contract, and a schelling point. There are good reasons to be bound be those, so the quote is false.