> ...fought by those with entrenched power. For decades now, per Alistair Cockburn, I assumed people just really, really hate change. There's some research wh

> ...fought by those with entrenched power. For decades now, per Alistair Cockburn, I assumed people just really, really hate change. There's some research which shows our selfish little brains have an immunological type reaction to change. Anything that threatens our internal stable equilibrium is squashed like an invader. No matter how much we say we want to change. No matter how much we may need to change. While wholly correct, turns out Cockburn was an optimist. We now know that some fraction of people would rather watch the whole world burn than give up one iota of power.