I do agree that it is tough to figure out what the right thing is but I disagree with the survival argument. A lot of organizations (e.g. companies, non-profit

I do agree that it is tough to figure out what the right thing is but I disagree with the survival argument. A lot of organizations (e.g. companies, non-profits, and unions) end up spending a good chunk of their resources to try keep things as they are and keep the organization alive - despite the right thing being in another direction. This ends up keeping these organizations alive for far longer than they should. The systems of incentives can also become perverted by these organizations. Personally, I want to see more organizations devoted to solving problems and boldly becoming obsolete. The predominant reward models do not really seem to reward that. (Recent semi-related anecdote: see recent nytimes article about what happened to the project devoted towards designing and stockpiling inexpensive ventilators that came into existence after doing a risk analysis around SARS.)