Even when it collapses in on itself, the self-interested interests keep inventing inequitable ways to prop it up like it's still alive. Long deceased, by any other measure. So it does seem that an intervention is required to lop off the fabricated extension strategies.

Its like Hydra, you cut off one head, and several grow in its stead.

That's a good analogy, Monika. More sensibly, though, the Hydra rarely lopped its own head off.