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The Scouring of the Shire (documentcloud.org)
14 points by incomplete on June 18, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Good lord how melodramatic.

The people who signed - you’re going to return the money that you made from Palantir, the real estate and stocks you bought to go along with it.

Right?

Right. Thought so.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241024


sunk cost fallacy. not doing additional evil is good even if you don't undo the evil you already did. yes, you should make up for it if you can. but making up for the evil probably wouldn't involve giving money (back) to the people still doing the evil.




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