Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.
Changing people's habits is very expensive
Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.
We should applaud peristroika but not pay for it.
Social changes always involve trade-offs.
We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
