Once a company reaches a monopoly position, its incentive structure is to suppress all innovation that does not improve its core business.
Once an actor reaches uncontested dominance, its incentive structure is to suppress all change that does not improve its position.
In my more paranoid moments, I suspect there’s something like this going on in general: American power actors want stagnation and fear change, because change can be destabilizing and they’re what would be destabilized. This is obviously true in the case of cultural power, but I’m not sure how it would extend beyond that.
Once an actor reaches uncontested dominance, its incentive structure is to suppress all change that does not improve its position.
In my more paranoid moments, I suspect there’s something like this going on in general: American power actors want stagnation and fear change, because change can be destabilizing and they’re what would be destabilized. This is obviously true in the case of cultural power, but I’m not sure how it would extend beyond that.