Historical inflection points are often interesting. The outcry that leads to widespread change is often triggered by things that are actually substantially bett

Historical inflection points are often interesting. The outcry that leads to widespread change is often triggered by things that are actually substantially better than the status quoa, but the timing works out very badly for those involved. Reminds me these days of Google. Google isn't even operating in China in any real capacity currently, and a lot of western companies are, but Google is taking a huge amount of heat. What seems to matter in these cases isn't the actual facts of the particular instance, but the widespread issues they become a symbol of. Consider the theory that revolutions often happen not when things are going from bad to worse, but when things are getting better, but insufficiently fast enough to satisfy the populace. The newly wealthy merchants of the French monarchy system were one of the key drivers of the overthrow of the monarchy, and newly wealthy landholders the key mover in the American revolution.