Emeritus
Full time employment: Posting here.
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2009
- Messages
- 886
It depends. Change is easy to accept if it is clearly better than the status quo. I could give numerous examples, one being the fact that you are posting this rather than handwriting a snail-mail letter-to-the-editor.
If this change was clearly better, resistance would be minimal. I agree we need change.
-ERD50
Clearly better to WHOM? If you have control of a key node in any network so that you can extract monopoly profits, You hate change and its worth a lot of money to You to stop it. voila you buy some polticians and it's stopped.
There is more "heat " in a swimming pool than in a match, but only a match can start a fire. It is the structure of power and the existence of a vulnerable node that allows change, good or bad. "Clearly better" means nothing if the people who want change are diffuse and it requires concentrated action.
Take radiology and the use of state licensing laws to eliminte the cost saving of Teleradiology. A few wealthy radiologists can buy enough legislators to defeat the shift.