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I don't know what the official name for the phenomena is where you widely experience a huge problem, the market reacts to fix the problem almost completely, peo
by brightball 1y ago
I don't know what the official name for the phenomena is where you widely experience a huge problem, the market reacts to fix the problem almost completely, people who never experienced the problem in the first place because the world before them solved it begin to complain about the solution, people defending the solution are mocked by people who have no context, the solution is rolled back and all the people who did it are happy with their win for a brief moment in time, then the original problem comes back in force but all of the walls put up to tear down the original solution make it 1000x harder to fix.
I feel like there needs to be a name for this. For now, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." is the most apt I think.
Happens constantly when you're essentially born on 3rd base. Maybe that's the proper name. Born on 3rd Base Syndrome.
- sd9 1y agoChesterton's Fence?
- brightball 1y agoThat probably covers it, yes. Thank you.
- charles_f 1y agoOooh didn't know but I like that. "if you can't explain what the fence is doing i won't let you remove it", makes for a great refactoring principle!
- supportengineer 1y agoIs this about vaccines?
- brightball 1y agoHa! No, it wasn't intended to be. Applies to a lot of different things though.
- DemocracyFTW2 1y agoI was going to say exactly this: people get sick, a vaccine is born, people get less sick, the vaccination practice gets established, the sickness vanishes. Then efforts maybe slump because the perception of danger and living memory of the sickness have largely left the building, and then those with baseless claims against the vaccine rear their heads and gain more followers. Now you have an under-vaccinated populace with ever fewer vaccinated people and the sickness can spread again, even more fervently than it could have originally, because younger folks have never experienced the virus live and are too often not vaccinated.
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- schoen 1y agoYeah, I think this can really happen, and it's just about the heart of the preparedness paradox, a term that I mentioned somewhere else in this thread. I've often said that my grandmother was so grateful for all the childhood vaccines that came out during my mom's and my aunt's childhoods, or around that time (the Baby Boom era), because my grandmother really concretely saw how terrible some of those diseases were, with people in her generation actually contracting them in childhood, maybe even dying of them. But if you've really never seen them, it's pretty natural that they start to seem like something that barely even exists at all. Like, I don't even know the different between typhus and typhoid, or what their symptoms are, or what you actually do to prevent them, or exactly how they're spread, or whether they've been eradicated in certain regions or whatever (or even whether there are any vaccines against them or whether or not I've personally received those vaccines in infancy!). I just barely have a vague sense that these are truly awful things that apparently exist in the world, probably relate to water contamination somehow, and may potentially come back in war zones or disaster zones. (Way to go, people who do ... something? ... to prevent those two!)
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- schoen 1y agoI think you want the Preparedness Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
- brightball 1y agoThat one is good as well. I think the combination of this and Chesterton's Fence really capture it well.
- slowmovintarget 1y agoGlass-Steagall comes to mind. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legisla...