Sad to say, life is full of positive feedback loops. "Positive feedback" in popular usage has to do, say, with getting kudos from your boss. But from a systems

Sad to say, life is full of positive feedback loops. "Positive feedback" in popular usage has to do, say, with getting kudos from your boss. But from a systems perspective, positive feedback is more in line with the proverb, "The rich get richer" and its corollary (which I am coining right now): The unfortunate get more unfortunate.