(08-15-2010, 06:47 PM)atdsutm Wrote: same as what iraya has just said when you get something or do something, there is something being sacrificed to get it.
in economics it is called "opportunity cost"
WTF im getting what one of my prof called "economist syndrome" where you always apply economic concepts even at the most simplest of things in the world
Opportunity cost only applies when you have to lose something to gain something else though. For example, Alphonse Elric became a symbol on a suit of metal because Edward did forbidden alchemy. The opportunity cost of the spell was Al's body. For Serene, he only gained and did not sacrifice anything. It's possible to argue opportunity cost in macroeconomic terms, but then this was a zero sum choice between two Filipinos.
