Yes I know, your least-favorite idea goes here. But seriously, someone must have come up with the concept before. Like a bad get-rich-quick scheme could fall into this category, where joining the scheme makes people lose money and become more desperate, so they become more likely to do desperate things like invest more in the scheme. But it can apply to a number of other bad ideas.
Conservativism.
That’s the “sunk cost fallacy”
Sunk cost fallacy is definitely a subtype, but I’m going for I guess the more general concept of an idea that becomes more popular the worse it does
I don’t think it is a subcategory I think it’s the term you’re looking for.
The actual phrase has its origins in a financial sense but the way it’s used nowadays is much more broad. You can invest time, money, emotion, identity etc and it’s still the “sunk cost fallacy” if it keeps failing and you keep going.
Sunk cost fallacy is when you use previous expenditures to justify new expenditures so as not to “waste” the previous expenditure. It doesn’t imply the idea gets more popular like op is looking for.
*waste
Sorry for being pedantic. Could’ve just been your autocorrect or not your first language lol no offense meant.
I world call that “failing upward” which is fucking up your job such that you get a promotion.
It can be a thing for more skilled labor jobs. You csn be just okay at say… running machine shop equipment. You break more stuff and make more blem parts than most of the people in the shop. But it seems like you have a grasp on the overall processes and can type well.
Boom now you’re not working on machines but managing machinists. Ordering what they need, stat tracking, scheduling, product contracts etc.
“Its Morbin Time” comes to mind
