The other day, I wrote about the movie "In This Corner of the World".

In this movie, only one time, "Suzu" who is a heroin, is driven by wild emotion.

At the moment I watched the scene, I reminded the phrase,

"Sunk-Cost Fallacy"

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"Sunk-Cost" is literally "sunk cost", and to be honest, it means "wasted investment cost".

For example,

I have been a performer for twenty years. one or two people who has same career like me, become a smash hit every year, Next year, I may become a smash hit. If you stopped the entertainer here, what was my life for this 20 years?

I have been studying about judicial exam for ten years. If I give up the judicial exam this year in the 11th , what was the past ten years for me?

Our company has been doing research on this technology, putting enormous budget and talent into the company. If we stop it here, what should our company do from tomorrow?

Japan has continued to put in taxes of 50 million yen every day (×every year) to put the fast breeder reactor into practical use, which will realize not rely on overseas energy for thousands of years in the future. If we stopped it here, what was the enormous amount of taxes exceeding 1 trillion yen that we've entered so far?

Recently, he who lives together, lost his job, and he came to use violence. I think I should be separated. But, I wonder if I can find a new man who will live with me. Moreover if I had not married to him, what was my seven years that I continued to associate with him?

And so on.

(To be continued)