@cstross@wandering.shop @KatS@chaosfem.tw @skjeggtroll@mastodon.online The idea of continual change goes back as least as far as Confucius or Buddha. A wise man of the era said, “You cannot step into the same river twice.” Change is the nature of reality (if for no other reason than the inexorable march of entropy). I think you mean continuous improvement, and that necessarily implies change. I’m not smart enough to trace belief in change to capitalism, but I do know that change has a moral valence, and that can be good as well as bad, benevolent or rapacious.