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> Sunk cost fallacy. The developer has a product to sell regardless of how much effort was spent getting there; they own it and only need to sell it or even license it.

How is "the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it" relevant?

When a developer spends time on code that no one ever pays money for, whoever is employing that developer has lost money, probably a lot of it.

When a salesperson sits at home unemployed, it costs the company who will eventually employ them nothing.

How in the world are you trying to claim a sunken cost fallacy in this case? Did you respond to the wrong post? I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here.



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