All these predictions are being written from western world perspective. please also consider the other world-developing and less developed world- people have been almost undergoing what you would call dystopian worlds in some parts of the world because of poor policies, greed, exploitation. these have caused suffering to people for a long time. and decentralised currency could be a spark of hope for them??
The world rarely turns out the way the imagine.
I guess AI people will have a much more dystonian outlook than Bitcoin.
i also guess in 1940s, people thought nuclear power would ultimate lead to world destruction in afew decades. (it could still happen)
Also, just an observation- The Life foundation in the comics, ultimately ended up turning evil despite its noble mission'
Yes, I agree a very western, and Libertarian perspective, if this author had only seen 2019, reminds me of the second 'back to future', where everybody had gone retarded.
LEO today is the enemy, BITCOIN is just a racket to fleece stupid people, the US Government is worst than 2013 but now they even spend more money trying to keep humpty-dumpty from falling off the wall.
Let's get real, Western yes, in ASIA nobody gives a hell about BITCOIN, as you can use your mobile phone anywhere in ASIA or AFRICA to buy cigarettes and top-up your mobile cash with real money as you wish at any shop. In ASIA we got fiber-optic internet everywhere, in USA its still 1800's copper wire. In ASIA we have MAG-LEV trains, in the WEST they're still running 1800's rail-roads, trains in Japan are faster than planes in USA, nobody thinks twice about this.
The USA(WEST) has fallen so far behind in the last 10+ years, and nobody in the west has a clue, and nobody in ASIA gives it a second thought, that not everywhere is "FUTURE-WORLD" like old Disneyland Tomorrow-Land.
What made me comment was your comment about the USA perspective, yes it was, but very 2010 or earlier, very early bitcoin libertarian rhetoric, and that shit was killed by the RNC and 'tea-party' that completely destroyed that movement. Now you just have DNC and their professional liars that are trying to hold the ship together with band-aides so it don't sink. America has fallen so far since the article was written, its hardly applicable anymore. Ahh, I know you got the ORANGE-RETARD, but that's just proof that the USA public went full retard, they vote for what they deserve. The Orange Retarded, looked better than the old-witch, only given the choice of two evils.
In summary, nobody really gives a hell about the USA collapse, and everybody else is doing just fine.
I do say however that if your in the USA, do buy bitcoin, and get the fuck out, before the civil war begins and then return your bitcoin back to real money, and find a nice place to live outside the USA.