It’s a great question and the historical reference is no…..we could not overcome it. That is why having an open, decentralized, secure, protocol bounded by energy is so important. It is “imposing” this path regardless of our belief that it is imposing it. The only caveat is that it stays decentralized and secure. Meaning, we should expect every attack vector possible with us being pawns in the attack by measuring in fiat. (Your point about fear, greed, “stupidity”) BUT every time someone realizes their own agency in keeping it decentralized and secure and in turns moves their time (educating, spending, building, etc etc) they make the protocol stronger/immune to such attacks. Once you know….you know. Wild times.

@Ahab @Jeff Booth I like to think back to what it would have been like when other transformational technologies took hold. When the printing press was in its infancy you can imagine the early movers wondering: “Will most people actually learn to read and write or will we keep listening to the church out of ignorance as we always have?”