Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?

  • Zier@fedia.io
    14·
    2 months ago

    Let’s call it “Keuriged”. The Keurig guy had so much regret on his polluting invention. Not sure if there is an actual term for this though.

    • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
      173·
      2 months ago

      I think Segwayed is better because James Heseldon, inventor of the Segway, died after riding a Segway off a cliff.

      Edit: apologies! Apparently he didn’t invent the Segway, just owned the company

        • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.netEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Not to be confused with segued, which is ‘to move easily and without interruption from one piece of music, part of a story, subject, or situation to another’.

      • Sizzler@slrpnk.net
        2·
        2 months ago

        Didn’t own the company just the sole British distribution rights

        edit to add: He lived on the south coast, used and enjoyed the product, and was moving out of the way for a pedestrian on a narrow path and went backwards over the cliff edge. A tragedy that doesn’t belong in this thread.