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Is there an established name for this
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I came up with this on my own (not special) and I've been calling it the Bus Paradox but have used it to explain a lot of situations. Goes like this.

A place has local transportation, like where I live, and the buses run once an hour. Since this is an unreliable form of transportation, very few people utilize the bus system and since no one is really riding the bus, the local government doesn't add more buses to make them run more frequently.

Someone has to break the cycle. I know it's an example of a positive feedback loop but is there a name for specific kinds of positive feedback loops like I've deemed this one?

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