> I fail to see how those aren't examples of how this technology benefits society.
Can you list examples of how it has helped society as a whole? Nothing you listed has anything to do with helping society. You've listed things you think are good things, but nothing is a society wide benefit. Building on top of Bitcoin or Etherium is great and all... But how does that help the average person? I've seen no trickle down or benefits from crypto that are anything but pure speculation akin to sports gambling.
It helps libgen, sci-hub stay funded and makes Argentines, many other nations hold USD equivalent. It makes remittance much more cheaper and easier too
One idea of capitalism, is that there are indirect benefits to everyone, from the actions of private self-interested parties. If crypto somehow allows more people to work together (I don't have an opinion if this is true or not), then that alone should be enough for it to fit into the western ethic.
No, because employees can own a portion of the very company they work for and get paid interest to hold it in the form of dividends, investors can do the same and it goes into the company and its growth. How is that remotely like Crypto? People collaborating on random projects isn't at all the same, especially when so far...not a single one of these projects has had a net benefit on anyone's life. Meanwhile public companies do. If crypto projects were actually solving problems instead of constantly reinventing and complicating the wheel, maybe you could say otherwise...but so far that hasn't happened, and we're sneaking up on 20 years of this.
Can you list examples of how it has helped society as a whole? Nothing you listed has anything to do with helping society. You've listed things you think are good things, but nothing is a society wide benefit. Building on top of Bitcoin or Etherium is great and all... But how does that help the average person? I've seen no trickle down or benefits from crypto that are anything but pure speculation akin to sports gambling.