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anoncake on Aug 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimi...

The switching cost is a one-time cost. The benefits are permanent. It hardly matters how much switching will cost, eventually it will be worth it.

laumars on Aug 29, 2020 [–]

Are they going to be permanent though? You’re assuming that people’s routines don’t organically change again over time.

But cost was just one part of my point. The feasibility of getting everyone to change, by their own momentum, was another issue I raised.

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