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Coste de oportunidad

The idea

El coste de oportunidad es el valor de la mejor alternativa que se descarta al elegir.

Opportunity cost is the value of the best alternative you give up when you choose — the quiet denominator of every spending and investing decision.

This atlas page keeps the focus on mechanisms you can reason about: rates, time, contributions, costs and behaviour — not stock tips or promised yields.

Principles

Misconceptions

Why it matters

Opportunity cost: keep the definition tight, the units dated, and the costs visible — then the “magic” looks like arithmetic with a long clock.

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