@preinheimer While entirely true and foreseeable, this end game is years down the line, when all relevant decision makers will have cashed out already, so who cares? /s

@angusm @cstross On the continent, we call this kind of thing a Dolchstosslegende: it is taken as so self-evident that X should have succeeded, even if it clearly didn't (say starting WW I, or leaving the EU), it must be due to some deep conspiracy, so the solution is to do the same thing, only harder...