It's nice to agree sometimes :) I'd say moreso than the laws, is just the hierarchies entrenched in every sphere of life are the real mechanisms preventing any

It's nice to agree sometimes :) I'd say moreso than the laws, is just the hierarchies entrenched in every sphere of life are the real mechanisms preventing any real change. On one hand, stability is good, but at what cost, right? Something as small as the apple app store - everyone knows it's bad, nothing has been done about it for years. If Apple tomorrow, came to HackerNews and said hey, we know the app store sucks, we are going to hire a 20 person team of stars to re-build it. We will give you full autonomy, high paycheques, lots of publicity and a full year to do it. Wouldn't that be an overwhelmingly positive move? Even if a year later, the team failed to deliver, at the very least it'd generate a ton of enthusiasm and new ideas. This is a small example of big companies not willing to do anything outside the stale old box, even when there is absolutely no downside. It's those old, bored farts earning a paycheque that are the problem every time. Apple has the money, just not the wisdom to go outside the box every now and again. Politics is 1000x worse I imagine.