Ruinous Decision

A Ruinous Decision is a bad decision that leads to an agent's ruin.

• Example(s):
  • jumping of a very tall bridge.
  • gambling all of your savings while on retirement.
  • organization X lost its mission and deferred innovating its product line, such as Kodak, Xerox, Nokia, ...
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Weakly-Bad Decision.
  • a Risky Decision.
• See: Good Decision.

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References

2020

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ruinous#Adjective
  1. Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
  2. Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.

     They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.

  3. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

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