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Given that premise, why couldn't one species--a bacterium or virus, perhaps--run amok and destroy all other life on earth before finally succumbing itself?
I groaned at the thought of Michelangelo's succumbing to sixteenth-century anti-Semitism.
The two changes are different, of course: the former marks a final succumbing to the relentless forces of the indicative: the weakening of the subjunctive might be regarded as a rejection of the tolerance of uncertainty on the part of the speaker, perhaps a product of the late-20th-century obsession with the facts, resulting in insecurity when faced with doubt, with low probability, or with contrary-to-fact situations.
In thinking about "de-verticalization" the most obvious risk is succumbing to nostalgia for the days when companies "actually made something."
I have known the term for most of my life, and its source was never a mystery to me; still, I must allow that, like others, I am not immune to succumbing to the trap of believing in the infallibility of a fact that is simply not so.