And the corollary: if there's a mechanism that makes it happen, and yet it has not happened yet,

=> IT WILL SURELY HAPPEN.

This is the whole point of the whole thread. Elsewhere I'm talking about probabilities and stuff, and that's where I really excel. This thread is simple: if it grows by design, and you cannot kill it, it will take over the world, and the question is only about that of timing. Or altering the premises. Many critics cannot go that far though, or generally to anything else except USD/BTC.