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Old Oct 14, 2017 | 10:37 pm
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
If you gift her GM from your choice benefits, her 37,000 MQMs and $7000 MQDs are wasted.
Shouldn't that be viewed as a sunk cost, as you economists like to say?

If the end result is GM for the wife either way, it would seem to make more sense for OP to take the 15k MQMs and push towards 1MM.
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