Your comment made wonder if there is an social / economic phenomenon tied to your characterization. I'd be really curious if there is any academic work done on further elucidating it.

Edit: Did some research with ChatGPT and found the following papers if anyone else is interested in the above concepts.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9537742/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235279297_The_survi...

https://backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu/...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10025906/

https://strategy.sjsu.edu/www.stable/pdf/Staw%2C%20B%2C%20L%...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0312896220970609