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Choosing nothing, and getting exactly that in return.

means The state of doing nothing when something could or perhaps should be done.

from Built from the Latin prefix 'in-' (not) plus 'actio' (a doing, a putting into motion), itself from 'agere' (to drive, to act, to do) — the same root that gives us 'act,' 'agent,' and 'agenda.' So inaction is literally 'un-doing' in the most structural sense: not the undoing of something made, but the simple negation of making anything happen at all.

still a choice
doing nothing is itself a decision
compounding cost
delayed decisions quietly accrue interest
default outcome
inaction lets other people decide for you
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