it turns out how they accomplish this without altering the present/future is that the "historical figure" you punch is just a low-wage worker for the time travel company, in costume, like Mickey at Disneyland. they travel back to just before you arrive, and leave just after you.
they don't get benefits, of course, because they're technically "independent contractors", but they're required to cover the costs of their costuming (which has to be 5-star convincing, of course) and time travel themselves, by taking out loans from the company.
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The other way you could go would be _The Prestige_-style cloning, and they just send back a clone to get punched, then kill them to cover their tracks (after all in most historical eras it's easy to lose a random dead body)
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Under public pressure the company agrees that randomly 1 in every 500 costumed “historical figures” punched will actually be a C-suite officer. Time-travel events briefly boom, only to drop to lower rates than before when it’s discovered that no CxO has ever been punched.
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