We live in a strange world, where human rights started to sound more like shallow slogans than something substantial you can rely on.
What I see is that society is moving quickly toward a model we are starting to distinguish clearer by the day, which has almost always been top-down.
All the way at the top, a few that control pretty much everything. We will never be aware of how much control they have. Conspiracy theorists may be right sometimes, while on other occasions they help build the statues of those few bigger than it is the case, maybe even giving them ideas.
At the next lower level, we find the agents of influence of those few. They may be in governments, agencies, companies, or private individuals with considerable influence. Some are in this category unwillingly, others do it by choice and likely receive benefits, while there is also the category of useful and trustful fouls, who do it by conviction, without realizing they are being used.
There is almost no middle class anymore, which looks like someone's plan, not because it naturally happened. The middle class has the insolence of having pretty much all they need and is harder to control. Who needs that, right?
Then we have the majority, many of whom are poor. They can be dangerous, most likely for the agents of influence and not for the few in control, if they find a way to ask for their rights in an organized form. Unfortunately for them, that rarely happens, and when it does, they often get manipulated, their leaders get bought, and give up before receiving anything substantial.
The fiat system is all about the hierarchy above.
Then crypto appeared and started to shift things a bit. Not entirely, because we still have rich and poor in crypto too. But the rich in crypto may have been poor in fiat at first. And many who have been around in crypto for a few cycles and haven't made terrible mistakes should probably be at least in the middle class by now, in societal terms. So there is a way to grow back that middle class, perhaps despite those who want to see it gone or reduced.
The powerful of the world woke up relatively late to the threat crypto was for the infrastructure they built for control (mostly the financial system based on fiat, banks, central banks, stock exchanges, Forex, etc.). Thus we see now and have seen for a while all sorts of strategies to bring as much of crypto control in their hands and attempt to demolish what they can't have. And it's working for the most part.
We will have the majority of crypto (not just CEXes) bend to their will, sooner or later. We will have a minority of the crypto space say "This doesn't represent us!" and remain censorship-resistant and decentralized, despite the likely pressures. And we will have the "f*ck you!" solutions they will hate and will attempt to isolate and demonize. This is where the world's most powerful few will likely fail, the harder they try. But until then, these solutions or people associated with them publicly will have a hard time...
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