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The ounce nobody thanks you for, because the disaster it stopped never happened.
means The act of stopping something bad from happening in the first place, rather than cleaning up after it does.
from From Latin praevenire — prae ('before') plus venire ('to come') — literally 'to come before' or get there first. It originally meant to anticipate or precede someone, sometimes in the sense of forestalling them; English narrowed it over time to the specific sense of heading off trouble before it arrives.
- credit paradox
- success looks exactly like nothing occurring
- economics
- cheaper than cure, harder to fund
- psychology
- humans discount invisible wins heavily
- public health
- vaccines victims of their own success