Good point, I should have clarified on time period, my experience was circa early 2010s, and I hear it’s more commercialized now. I didn’t intend to claim that

Good point, I should have clarified on time period, my experience was circa early 2010s, and I hear it’s more commercialized now. I didn’t intend to claim that BM is actually solving these problems or going in the right direction, just that in a specific time and place and community, there was a glimpse of something very different. (I understand it’s a lot to do with community size and selection effects.)