I never knew there was an actual term for this, but I knew of the concept in my professional work because this situation often plays out when the government widens roads here in the States. Ostensibly the road widening is intended to lower congestion, but instead it often just causes more people to live there and use it, thereby increasing congestion.
Probably a decent amount of professions have some variation of this, so it probably is accurate to say most people know OF Jevon’s Paradox because it’s pretty easy to dig up examples of it. But probably much fewer know it’s actual name, or even that it has a name
IMHO it happens as long as you can find use cases that were previously unfeasible due cost or availability constraints.
At some point the thing no longer brings any benefits because other costs or limitations overtake. for example, even faster broadband is no longer that big of a deal because your experience on most websites is now limited by their servers ability to process your request. However maybe in the future the costs and speeds will be so amazing that all the user devices will become thin clients and no one will care about their devices processing power, therefore one more increase in demand can happen.
Probably a decent amount of professions have some variation of this, so it probably is accurate to say most people know OF Jevon’s Paradox because it’s pretty easy to dig up examples of it. But probably much fewer know it’s actual name, or even that it has a name