guilds until they became licensing bodies, universities until they became degree mills, hospitals until they became medical monopolies, hackerspaces until they professionalize... basically, all institutions started out this way
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Sure, but I can't think of any institution that remained this way. But it is maybe because those who planned their own ending or vanishing have been forgotten...
You mentioned the ethereum foundation in another post, so I was wondering if it would be able to maintain its goal or if it would at some point just opt for survival as long as possible.