This is called the perversity thesis: any action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order is alleged to result in the exact opposite

This is called the perversity thesis: any action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order is alleged to result in the exact opposite of what was intended. It's a classic propaganda argument. There's at most a dozen techniques in these propagandists bag of tricks and they're all really old.