What is most troubling is the widespread belief that human nature is malleable; that somehow once people who have adopted bitcoin get to run the show that it will be any different. I am the first person to complain about the excesses of the current establishment and the widespread systemic problems in nearly every aspect of western (global?) society. However, putting a different group of humans in charge will not drastically change the outcome. History is not linear and despite popular belief, human nature does not progress. 'Science and Technology are cumulative, ethics and politics are recurring dilemmas' (John Gray). This type of thinking isn't exclusive to users of bitcoin, but, unsurprisingly, there seems to be a particularly large contingent of believers in the impending utopia, borne from technological progress.
Bit off topic, but I typically get carried away once I get on my soapbox.
I think you have some excellent points, but it is important to note that we are not just putting 'different people' in charge, we are changing the framework by which money creation and financial transactions occur. I believe changing a framework càn have profound consequences.
By the way, theoretically, I would say that human nature does evolve, just very very very slowly, and only after certain "evolutionary incentives" change.
I think people don't understand
human nature, or misinterpret a more complex version of it, it is at the heart to
seek pleasure avoid pain. To that end given the wrong information or misguided into blaming the other for your suffering, great evil can be perpetrated, and human nature manipulated.
@ mrbrt link nothing needs to change in human nature, it is perfect*, where the lack in society is, is our collective immune system has not evolved enough to reject infectious parasites. (*how human nature is improved is through the use of empathy [the golden rule] and reason in predicting what will result in pleasure or pain. Understanding that if I chose to pleasure myself at the expense of others (lack of empathy) I am acutely causing pain which will result in resentment and pain for me, and so what is wrong is we build walls and laws to allow this resentment to build up.)
There is just one mechanism that is responsible for the greatest suffering on earth today, it is the eroding the wealth from the poor (and the producers) to benefit the wealthy, and it is built into the heart of our society. It is the meme that a fixed unit of exchange is how you trade your labour and smarts for wealth. (they lie is that is not the money we use )
This mechanism is the Cantillon Effect, the result of which creates poverty by creating new money, ironically controlled moderate monetary inflation is very thing economists insist ensures prosperous growth.
With a Bitcoin, human nature isn't affected (well it is if you read this tread so we should get back to watching for walls) but the mechanism (Cantillon Effect) that forces slavery and creates poverty is eliminated allowing something new to develop.
], the advantage only grows with deflationary currency [textbook stuff here]. BTW, my question was much shallower & simpler: If wealth tends to disperse in Bitcoin economy, and I'm looking to get rich (be a node of wealth concentration), it seems to follow that backing Bitcoin is not in my best interest. I think. 
