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
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