Resistência contra inovação

Every Successful New Technology Has Created Panic From Those It Disrupts

from the well-said dept

Jeffrey Tucker has an all around fantastic essay on capitalists who fear change -- discussing how companies and industries in an otherwise capitalist/free market society freak out when they face competition from disruptive innovation. They go to amazing lengths to claim that it's not real competition or innovation they face, but something that must be illegal, immoral, unethical or the death of all things good and holy. The technopanics set in with alarming frequency, and in the end, they are always wrong. The end result ends up being bigger and better than ever before, even if some of those legacy players don't make it through. Tucker tells the story wonderfully:
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