Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so.
Honeybees got to North America around the time Columbus did.
And the same is true for technologies and companies. Western Union was an interloper, telegrams were the scary new tech that was going to change everything for the worse.
It’s easy to be in favor of the status quo, but it’s also true that the status quo used to be a brand-new threat.
