Can you come up with an example from the past when an innovation that made true positive change for mankind first required the destruction of what came before it in order to be built or marketed?

And can you come up with an example from the past when we have experienced true positive change for mankind as a result of forced change--where something is first destroyed, outlawed, or taxed into oblivion in order to enact that change?

In this 6th episode of The Rational Apprentice Podcast, we discuss whether the idea that you must "destroy to build" is valid or empirically true.