self-defeating

You can always spot real 'greed' because it's always self-defeating in the end.

Ok, but wouldn't catering to that OMG crowd be a little self-defeating?

It is stupid and self-defeating beyond the immediate short term.

It serves a self-defeating purpose, and I think it's diametric to the hacker ethos.

In addition to demonstrating robustness across consumers and marketing contexts, the results also demonstrate how waste aversion can lead to self-defeating behavior in which consumers forego desired utility.

Starbucks has always seemed self-defeating to me.

To argue that answers are negative because they deprives us of questions is self-defeating - if the answers are worthless, then the questions themselves were worthless in the first place.

A generous basic income funded by very high taxes would be self-defeating, as it would reintroduce the sort of distortions that many of its advocates hope to banish from the welfare system.

Maybe i'm wrong, but something about removing these barriers strikes me as self-defeating, and would likely lead you on a journey with lots of folks who never should be doing startups in the first place.

But I am not yet convinced that these protests were the right way to bring attention to these issues, and I feel that the harm, inconvenience, and cost that they visited on others was somewhat self-defeating.

Europe should split somewhere in the middle into two worlds, much like the Americas (which seem to be like a weird blown up model of the old world) - the Northern part - free and prosperous and forward thinking, and the Southern part - corrupt, criminal and tragically and indulgently self-defeating.

The problem has accumulated over generations and we should be taking an approach that is designed to work out over a similar timescale, like the restructuring of German war debt in 1953 (in contrast to the self-defeating hard-line approach on WW1 reparations following the Treaty of Versailles).

An idiot is "an intellectually disabled person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way".

Searching for "who is responsible" when the car is self-driving is self-defeating.

This isn't a good market for a procurer of software labor: this kind of "replace em!" management attitude is only self-defeating.

Your "good luck without cash" is self-defeating, because you're effectively saying "I was in a cash-only society the other day, good luck without cash".