It is not a biological argument. Well, maybe it was, but you can also compare what aging does to corporations. Companies also age, even though their substrate doesn’t. They get slower and more conservative. They have optimized harder in the past and have more to lose due to change. I bet these effects also happen to people and not for biological reasons (though these may make it worse).
In case of institutions, there’s a bias towards conservatism because any institution that’s too willing to change is one that might well cease to exist for any number of reasons. So if you encounter a long-lived institution, it’s probably one that has numerous policies in place to perpetuate itself.
This doesn’t really seem analogous to how human aging affects willingness and ability to change.
It’s a potentially useful data point but probably only slightly comparable.
Big, older, well-established companies face stronger and different pressures than small ones and do have more to lose. For humans that’s much less the case after a point.
It is not a biological argument. Well, maybe it was, but you can also compare what aging does to corporations. Companies also age, even though their substrate doesn’t. They get slower and more conservative. They have optimized harder in the past and have more to lose due to change. I bet these effects also happen to people and not for biological reasons (though these may make it worse).
In case of institutions, there’s a bias towards conservatism because any institution that’s too willing to change is one that might well cease to exist for any number of reasons. So if you encounter a long-lived institution, it’s probably one that has numerous policies in place to perpetuate itself.
This doesn’t really seem analogous to how human aging affects willingness and ability to change.
It’s a potentially useful data point but probably only slightly comparable. Big, older, well-established companies face stronger and different pressures than small ones and do have more to lose. For humans that’s much less the case after a point.