This is an interesting/tragic aspect of (at least) organizations, professions and technologies: Once created, they become a sort of living thing. No matter how "obsolete" the world may see them now, they don't want to die and will do everything in their power to stay alive. Including doing immoral things, breaking laws or even murder.
I've started keeping quiet when my colleagues in the newspaper industry talk about how to save newspapers. I'm no longer interested in saving them. if they can't support themselves, then they should die and entrepreneurs should put the pieces back together again into something that makes sense.
