This
Especially the last sentence
When this happens to “Businesses, products, technologies…” , in other words when it happens to markets, the chaos in between definitely includes objectively bad stuff. The examples are numerous. The markets for land when new western states were made eligible for settlement and the concomitant speculation bubbles, the market for silver in the 1890s and the bubble that created, the new markets for telephony, electricity, and the automobile that all had their bubbles pop at once…. Shit happens and it gets everywhere. In every case, those who adapted to what the new world would look like first did the best, while those who tried to profit from chaos were a sordid mix of villains and victims, sometimes all wrapped up in the same person.
It’s worse when it’s governments. Especially the former Soviet Union. It crashed with nothing in place to handle capitalism. They did not have a system of laws to handle property rights, so there were none. Most of the KGB became the Russian mafia, and they were the only organization there was for awhile. People became billionaires by hiring workers for starvation wages to tear up railroads to sell the tracks as scrap steel, others did the same in tearing up utility infrastructure to sell for scrap. Russia was destroyed and a handful of people became ridiculously wealthy because you had anarchy. Russian soldiers could be seen in Moscow, begging… in uniform… because the government couldn’t pay them. You can’t blame the transition on any form of government because there was none.
All of this to say that, yeah, this is messy. But the standards of value by which we judge this to be a bad thing are purely subjective. When these transitions happen in real life, the result has been hell on earth. This is, at worst, incommodious for those of us who liked things the way they were.
The only truly important thing in college football right now is the utter destruction of the DPIA. The rest is inconsequential
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