Ever figure dumping cash into an online biz makes someone a hotshot mogul, like some Monopoly champ tossing bills like confetti? That’s the brain’s sunk cost fallacy talking, a sneaky psych trap that has people clinging to bad bets just because they already paid up. Home-based biz newbies burn through piles of cash on overpriced tools, websites that look like a dog chewed them, and “done-for-you” dreams, thinking money somehow buys mastery without lifting a finger. Wrong.