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.
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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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This is how 90% of sharks died 19 million years ago? Because they stopped dumping Time Traveled corpses for them to nom? Or it introduced an innocuous to us disease that wiped out our corpse disposal grounds?
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I suspect we would get tourism as in "Up the Line": pay to visit historical events.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Line …
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