Cost and Utility

Cost

Cost noun - A payment made in the course of achieving a result.

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Utility and cost are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Utility" instead a noun "Cost".

Nearby Words: costly, costless, costing, costliness

Utility noun - The capacity for being useful for some purpose.

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Cost and utility are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cost" instead a noun "Utility".

human	human cost	human utility
high	high cost	high utility
low	low cost	low utility
similar	similar cost	similar utility
Other adjectives: normal, true, sheer, effective, actual, real, great, huge, little, social, incredible, possible, less, minimal, additional, added, overall.

The above examples simply point out that the Sunk Cost fallacy should account utility, not merely monetary value.

Source: Sunk Cost Fallacy
As long as dollars are replaced with utility, the Sunk Cost fallacy is inescapable.

Source: Sunk Cost Fallacy
The show also developed the inverse law of utility and special effects cost.

Source: Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality

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