Science progresses one funeral at a time. Companies tend to do much better after they're forced to do layoffs. People who flip a coin and decide to make a major

Science progresses one funeral at a time. Companies tend to do much better after they're forced to do layoffs. People who flip a coin and decide to make a major life change based on the flip rather than via careful deliberation end up happier on average. Etc. Inertia is a bitch, and it congeals around everything that involves people, viciously if there are no counterbalancing forces. If catastrophe can help things get better in the long run it usually just means that the current processes suck and need fixing. Not super surprising, but worth paying attention to.