Loss is not what old people who have little to gain and a lot to lose are interested in. Fortunately, in each generation of people there is always a new group of people who have not much stake in the system, not much to lose and not much sympathy with those who are afraid of change. Thus, it is usually left to the young and disenfranchised to introduce change. There is also another class of human activity, which can be called thoughtless ideas, or the class of negative ideas. Cultural immaturity, manifested in such things as racial prejudice, slavery and war.
Cultural immaturity is a kind of big-time bad manners.
A nice phrase for it would be cultural blind spots. All great ideas have been obvious to the prepared mind, and utterly invisible, though perfectly comprehensible after the fact, to the unprepared recipient. By learning to see, of course, but to see what is really there, rather than what we think is there, or would rather was there or have been told is there. Its excellent service and innovative design made it the best choice for typewriters, which was the contact that most business people had with the company. When computers hit the market, IBM chose to go with big mainframes, neglecting the burgeoning PC until market forces compelled participation.