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by guillem_lefait 1254 days ago
It looks similar to politics. A new candidate have to bring something on the table: new ideas, new faces, new horizon whereas if an in-place politician is interested in being re-elected, he probably wants to show how great he was and keep its base happy enough to have high retention.

Maybe you seek rent when you have non negligible costs to maintain past (think maintenance and tech debt)