"A power law grows without bound – it never saturates, never plateaus, never collapses from resource exhaustion – but it does so at a decelerating rate."
G. Santostasi – The Physics of Bitcoin

That is the reason why the mind that thinks and lives in terms of the old paradigm (extraction driven by scarcity) can only attack or try to undermine a scale-free network; otherwise, it would need to rethink its costly business model. Incapable of seeing past the 'beyondless', the ecosystem as a whole now relies on who can see and build beyond what others believe to be 'immutable': perception.