I’ll give some examples:

  • defunding the prevention of food born illnesses leads to them becoming an issue in 2026

  • understaffing IT departments because “we don’t have issues” then issues magically appear when support is taken away (surprised Pikachu face)

  • a magic witch preforms a yearly protection circle around your house, but you don’t want to pay any more because the gremlin infestation is gone, but they come back after the protection circle dissipates

  • they put armed guards on merchant ships to prevent somali piracy, but then the pirates slowed down so the companies got complicit and now somali pirates are becoming an issue again

  • i (in my infinite stupidity) don’t take my medicine because I feel fine, then after a few days I turn into a disaster pile of suicidal ideation and take my medicine to fix it

  • screw worms or something idk

but like the problem is in a loop where it just repeats forever because people don’t realize what’s preventing the issue

  • abrake@lemmy.world
    13·
    27 days ago

    In 2013 Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a famous analogy about the US Supreme Court gutting the voting rights act. She said it’s like “throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” That comes pretty close to your sentiment, OP.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    27 days ago

    In software development this is called a regression, and it is why we have regression tests. If you don’t run or check the regression tests, the problems they’re testing for can (and do) come back.

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
    3·
    27 days ago

    Like God said to Bender in Futurama “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all”. I propose calling this Bender’s Paradox.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    The concept you are describing is stopping preventative maintenance and discovering the consequences of said. I just don’t have a word for it.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
    31·
    27 days ago

    Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the results of the USA’s (first, in case this ends up needing extra specificity later) civil war are a couple other examples.

  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world
    2·
    27 days ago

    I don’t know a specific word, but I always think of it as “closing the umbrella because you’re not getting wet”

  • naught101@lemmy.world
    2·
    27 days ago
    • These are all types of weak regulation, I think
    • Efficiency is an aim that can lead to this
    • Systemic Fragility, or low resilience is the result
    • Chesterton’s Fence (a fence should not be removed until it is understood why it was built in the first place)
    • Short-sightedness is a cause
    • Not being able to see the wood for the trees is another
  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    2·
    27 days ago

    Rebound?

    Like if you have migraine headache, take a preventative but when you miss it the headache comes back worse, that’s a rebound headache.