Politics, making bad choices with votes, is mainly what I have in mind…but it’s not limited to that. You see it with anything that requires a choice and a commitment of money, time, effort, etc. By and large people don’t want to admit I made a bad choice and it’s time to cut my losses.
Instead there is lots of rationalizing going on, and I think this leads people down paths they otherwise would not have gone, rinse repeat as things worsen. Small concessions to negative consequences build over time, and along the way the initial bad choices may be forgotten. Plenty of people can be swimming in the messes they made without ever a thought of changing their views.
It never helps to point out the degree to which a person has compromised themselves. That has to be done from within, and that’s exactly what is missing.
I think all of this is a huge problem in the world today. But damned if I know what to do about it.
buyers remorse is admitting it. you are thinking more the sunk cost fallacy I think.
OP is claiming that buyers remorse is a taboo meaning that people aren’t admitting it. It’s a more accurate description than the sunk cost fallacy, which can allow regret.
oh I see. that they are unwilling to admit buyers remorse. There is just so much head in the sand nowadays. everyone wants to live in fantasy.
“The world can’t be ending if I don’t think of it!” :D
*keeps burning gasoline to get to that shitty job