A little more...
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I wish I could disagree with your assessment of
The furvor of the original players become the target of opportunists which plays into the hands of the bureaucratic leeches.
Unfortunately, I believe you have aptly described a discernable pattern. The only way for this pattern to be broken, will be a general enlightenment (as Ashton describes in his post), an enlightenment based on "learning from history" - human sociology that is sick of repeating past mistakes. It doesn't seem very likely, but there is at least a little hope.
