Not only politicians, the world is controlled by a few very powerful people who would greatly benefit from such a world. If everyone could participate in consumerism, imagine the profits! International organizations have been moving us in this direction for a long time.
The ultimate goal is for the entire world to become a “single market” with uniform laws, rules and regulations.
Technology is the only potential to take the exclusive control and profit back from capitalist mafia. Decentralization/distribution of control/trust primarily aims to bring economic justice for the public and societies, though certain people do not like this to happen. Regulation could be performed and set autonomously even in democratic autonomous organizations as well as dApps.
It is a fact that most of people are currently not aware of decentralization benefits, but they definitely will be when the next world economy crisis happens. As I mentioned earlier, we need a certain span of time to wait, watch and finally see what will happen.