• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    It’s a riff on a popular study that showed adding more lanes to reduce highway congestion can paradoxically increase congestion on those highways.

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      and it’s also generally good allegory for using too-simple of solutions to fix problems. Throwing more y at problem x that is still alive and well with plenty of y already around is a classic failure. Hell, it’s the basis of a few fallacies.

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        That was a shockingly good Wikipedia article, I vaguely knew it was a thing, but they did a good job laying out the math