Things get broken if they're susceptible to hazards. It's why I have a job: people make stuff all the time that susceptible to hazards like rot, storms, and being run into by trucks. I fix stuff all the time that's succumbed to such hazards, and I reckon there isn't anything people make that doesn't need fixing from time to time.

Stuff that breaks and can't be fixed so it's better than it was before probably should just be replaced anyway. Sometimes conditions change, and stuff that was well made for previous conditions no longer is well able to perform in the new circumstances, and then it needs to be replaced with something that does meet exigent needs. I do that work too.

Conditions are changing. Blockchain is one of the new things that are being made to replace old things that used to work, like banks. Blockchains that can't replace banks won't meet the new needs we have, because banks are hopelessly broken, and need replacing.

Hive enables a new social paradigm. It's potentially far more than just social media, and far more than just a cryptocurrency. While the governance model is currently extremely weak and vulnerable to financial manipulation (as Steem shows) the combination of social intercourse and economic functionality makes possible a new kind of government than has ever existed in history: completely voluntary, non-geographical government that cannot oppress it's people (other than through censorship, which is, again, as Steem now reveals, one of it's worst vulnerabilities)

Half the people of the world are presently under house arrest. Massive flows of money freshly conjured by national banks out of thin air are being delivered to investors across the planet, while the responsibility to repay that flow is being illegally levied on national citizens, and draconian impositions of police state oppressions, eradication of human rights, and extreme surveillance are being committed by tyrannies globally.

While the oldest form of government in the world, tyanny, is being imposed on the global population as a whole, Hive has the potential to deliver real freedom and economic security to that population. What is standing in the way of Hive meeting that need, of doing something Fakebook, Goolag, and Twatter could never do on their centralized platforms, is the legacy worldview of the oligarchy of ninjaminers that run Hive so they can profit financially. That is what makes Hive vulnerable to the Sybil attack that has destroyed Steem, that made Hive necessary to preserve the financial productivity Steem used to have to that oligarchy in this fork of Steem, and is keeping billions of people from becoming citizens of this new form of government that will replace barbarism.

Hive may not be able to break free of the oligarchy that keeps it hostage to their wallets, and that will be what breaks it, not being too decentralized. I am confident that the need for that new form of governance is palpably real to millions of people in the world today, and millions more need it but don't know it yet, because their financial ruin is still in progress as the banksters destroy the global economy, and they haven't begun to watch their children starve because of it yet.

But they will jump on that form of government when it is available and they realize the old ways are broken. Should Hive break instead of break free, lots of developers are ready, willing, and able to make a new blockchain, or hashgraph, or better platform that won't break the same way.

That voluntary government is necessary to the people of the world today, and the barbarism breaking all around us due to the exact financial Sybil attack that took down Steem is why. The old way of tyranny and oppression, centralization and parasitism by banksters is busted, broken and beaten by blockchain. Hive may be too controlled by that legacy financial mechanism to meet the need people have, and that is sad. The world will not simply fail to meet that need if Hive fails though, because people will meet their need anyway.