Originally Posted by
Oberon
The blackjack anecdote was just that. Sunk costs are a real thing and if you are making decisions based on your sunk cost you are using irrelevant information and likely bad decisions.
The goal in any contract is to get the best deal possible. Whether that deal lines up with your previous investment into the situation is coincidental.
Yep. Purple nailed it. Part of the problem.
In fact, your way of thinking about this is exactly the problem. You've accepted bankruptcy as a reset... your "new reality." And you have no expectation for restoration because you see the improvement required to be unreasonable.
Thousands of your fellow pilots disagree with that line of thinking and apparently have a greater appreciation and respect for the value of what we do.