Believing in absolutes and nostalgia prevents you from adapting to a changing universe. Everything ends - "this too shall pass", as they say, and conservatism in this case can be dangerous - you become unprepared for surprises. In some cases you are left as an expert or specialist in some area that is changing, but that just concentrates higher energy at the hands of less people. Surely it does not benefit the entire industry as a whole. When everyone is an expert, nobody is.
No technological advancement in history has ever reverted back to "the good old days". Sure, there are still horses around, but you will never change all the cars back to carriages. Tying to do so is tilting at windmills.
Humans obey the same basic rule as all other organisms on earth: invest less energy, receive more outcome. If you find a method or process that enables you to spend less money (energy), and get the same outcome or better, that process will replace the previous one. This behavior is so ingrained in your genetic makeup you will never stamp it out. You wrote, "The choice to put competitive activity in a price first mode is a fatal mistake". I disagree - it is aiming at basic human behavior, and it works.
If you truly care about your grandchildren, teach them how to adapt to the rapidly changing world around them.
How do the forum participants feel about this? And.... Does it really touch on the subject of the original topic?
Thank you in advance.
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