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The business plan of any "disruption" is to undercut the legacy competitors, drive them out of business, then jack up the prices. See also: Uber, streaming services.

Enjoy your cheap lawyer tokens while you can.

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I mean that's just how life is? Exploit opportunities when they appear, find new ones when they run out.

In principle, that's fine, but "disruptive" businesses aren't building a positive long-term model. Rather, they are leveraging investors' money to recklessly demolish established systems and replace them with something worse.

Im a bit Darwinistic on this, like if a system can be disrupted easily, it means there are existing weaknesses that need to be addressed (taxis vs Uber, hotels vs Airbnb).

If the established system can adapt to the disruption, then as consumers we have more choices.

If the established system dies and the disruptor replaced it (DVD rental vs Netflix), then the disruptor, despite their weaknesses, do answer the consumer needs better.

If both the established and disruptive system dies, then maybe they're not that important in the first place.

Any system can be disrupted if you throw unlimited VC money at it.

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