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1. mvkel ◴[] No.39949366[source]
"it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

If you're the incumbent, a paradigm shift usually forces you to intentionally cannibalize your existing revenue base in service of the not-yet-proven new thing. That's if you want to survive.

It's incredibly difficult, rare, nearly impossible, to pull such a thing off within a company system.

Imagine being Blockbuster, knowing that to survive, you'd need to transition to a content streaming company.

That's a ton to unwind before you can even buy servers, let alone hire the people to -lead the industry- in such a shift. All to simply remain alive.