I think, just as with version control 10 years ago and trustbusting 100 years ago, in time, we'll come to see hard forks as good...
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... History factoid: after Standard Oil was broken up, Rockefeller ended up far richer than he would have been if it had remained a monopoly
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I read it in the the major Rockefeller bio (Chernow) iirc. I don't think it's a radical reading. A fairly conventional one actually.
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They're more banal than people think though. "It would have been worse if the Nazis had won WW II" is conventional counterfactual wisdom
Though we actually can never know that is true (necessary in in a modal logic sense). Douglas Adams has some fun with such in HHG
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