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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

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[โ€“] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Complacency" is a related idea but a bit more general.

Complacency gets close, though I think it's more for things where you don't act when you should, and what OP described could almost count as sabotage - the difference between not increasing the range of an alert system (complacency) and taking it down, in both cases because "we haven't had an alert in X time"