I've made this observation too. We spend a lot of time trying to achieve consensus with our neighbor parasites about the status of a transaction (slice the pie

I've made this observation too. We spend a lot of time trying to achieve consensus with our neighbor parasites about the status of a transaction (slice the pie n ways, perhaps your database says that m of those n got paid, but mine says that m-1 got paid...), but if it were on a public blockchain there would be nothing to dispute.