You're aware that Blockbuster turned down the offer to purchase Netflix for $50 Million right? Or that Sears had a $16 BILLION market cap in 2007, with a current market cap in 2023 of about $41 MILLION in 2023?

People are inherently incapable of comprehending large-scale paradigm shifts. Or, change - at all, really, unless hit in the face with it at 300mph. See: climate change.

Don't take offense to it OP; just understand that human beings, caught up in hubris, ego, and denial, are grossly incapable of acknowledging events that may suggest anything related to a change in what they've grown accustomed to, unless hit in the face with it so hard they wake up with their face in a different room.

Here's a video of a guy drinking actual vegetable oil to drive home the point: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/11bc573/idiot_drinks_whole_bottle_of_vegetable_oil/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button