Most people who believe that the answer to 1984 is 1776, do not know much history. And they miss the extremely important part of the American Revolutionary War. In that, before the actual fighting started, they began creating their own government services. They built alternatives to the system. So that people who would want to withdraw from England could do so without going it alone.
It is very hard to live in a 1st world country without a bank account, a driver's license, and an acknowledged address. You can go off into the woods, but at some point you need to come back to go to the store. And that gets really hard without all your ID and a phone.
If you come back from the woods and want to rent an apartment, well, good luck. They are 10x more expensive than you remember, and they all want a year lease, and for you to have a good job. Why should this be so hard? I used to rent a place a day after blowing into town, with just a handshake.
And even in supposedly competitive environments, you can't buy from the competition. Everything in the grocery store is controlled by seven corporations. (or less now) You cannot opt out of one Cell-phone provider and switch to another, because they are all basically the same. And often just different names on the same service.
These short comings (planned to be that way) in our society is where we really need to fight back.
Crypto is great, but it is only one side of the equation. We also need the goods to be manufactured, and then sold for crypto.
It is interesting that people keep talking about crypto adoption, but do not realize that they are up against several, large corporations and the Fed / IMF. If these groups do not want adoption, they can basically deny people goods, unless they work within their system. Imagine needing to go to the gray market to buy a toaster. Sure, such markets will come into being. But, what a pain.
What we need to do is create a network of parts makers and assemblers for all the things we would buy at Wallymart. Groups of people who make toasters, who make refrigerators, who make trucks. And, will sell them locally (or shipped) for cryptos, precious metals, or (gasp) fiat currency.
It would be great if we could get lots of people to build parts and send them to lots of people who assemble feeding lots of people who sell and deliver them. Not one big company, but a network of small time, independent, suppliers. In this way, we could make an unstoppable force. One that will go around all the blockages, like water flows around stones.
One of the most interesting things is that the DMV will die, and very quickly, all of it will be on a blockchain.
As fiat currencies become more and more inflated, and govern-cement workers find themselves in a job that doesn't pay enough to buy groceries, a lot of the govern-cement workers will just stop showing up to work. Actually, most all of them.
And then we find that most govern-cement employees basically did nothing (except gatekeep) as we tokenize cars (license plates) and cryptographically identify people (ID). Suddenly, we can do the job of the DMV with a couple clicks of the mouse.
Further, many other govern-cement offices are exactly the same. Business licenses are just a way of applying bureaucracy to the running of a business. Or, those large corporations shouldn't have mom & pop compete with them. So, lets make it impossible for new people to start.
And, again, we will find that the block-chain provides so much more services, at a fraction of the price (money and time).
Further, it will do things that no govern-cement agency actually does. The internet will tie tokenized licenses with feedback mechanism, thus you can find out how good that person is. The "license" will now have meaning, that jumping through the hoops never could provide. A person who knows the test can get a contractors license, even if they have never successfully patched a hole in drywall.
In this area, we will quickly find that we do not need these govern-cement agencies. Blockchain will come for their jobs, if their jobs aren't already gone.
People often talk about off-grid living. With enough solar panels, you do not have to get power out to your place. You do not have to deal with the electric company.
And, we will replace all the utilities with better working, futuristic things.
We will provide small communities power by drilling an "dry oil well" and using it to collect geothermal energy, to run a small turbine to create electricity. Or, if they are on the coast, build a large paddle wheel near the coast, which uses wave energy to make electricity.
We will soon create a way of communicating anywhere on the planet. No wires. This new internet will replace internet providers and cell phone towers. You will not need permission, or to pay a large corporation for the ability to communicate around the world.
And cars / tractors will be electric. So, they will not need fuel from oil refining. They will also not need expensive, caustic, explosion hazard lithium ion batteries. Further, we may have flying cars. So, we can get rid of the need for tires too.
These things are coming. It will seem like a dam just burst, and all the inventions that we didn't see the last few decades spill out all over the world.
Focussing on building an alternative to the system that is govern-cement and the large corporations that stand on top of the world is they way we can win.
Large corporations / Large govern-cements are VERY slow to see a new threat. So many new things will come, one after the other that these bureaucratic entities will fail before they even start to move.
Beware, large dinosaurs are still dangerous, especially as they are dying.
We do not have to fight them, they are already lost. We do need to build an alternative economy and alternative trust/ID system. And it would be best to get it built before the old one dies.
We all know about growing our own food, but we really need to start working into providing everything without the need for Wallymart and the corporate behemoths that supply it. We used to be a nation in which most men new how to work on and repair their cars. It can be that way again. Appliances are not that complex. They just have a lot of parts. So, we are going to need a loose group of men to make all the parts, and another to assemble all those parts, and one more group to sell and deliver these things. Sure, some men might do it all. I could. But, it is better to specialize, but in a networking, decentralized way.