diversionary pedantic argument

It's your argument, lol.

You compared it to Ancient Rome and I responded. Garbage in / Garbage out I guess.

As far as what you say here:

Ya, "do X, backed by a gun, if you don't like it you can rearrange your life and take on a huge hassle" is different than just not using a blogging platform.

And the variables and dynamic becomes totally different.

Like for example a large part of why Rome collapses, as I understand it, is expanded war and inflation to pay for it. Stake-weight rewards can't spiral into that issue, even if in other ways the parallel works.

Take care.