I also know many people who have other priorities than “trading digital assets” and understand them well.
Bitcoin has for many of those the bad smell of money and speculation. But they usually don’t see/know the underlying significance, neither they know what money really is about - the glue which lets people economically interact across their local boundaries.
Here are some highly recommended articles regarding that:
In my opinion Bitcoin is to money what the Internet was to information.
Bitcoin will transform what money is and how we interact with it. That will go much further than the primitive and narrow Fiat money as we know now.
Compare the current money with the classical forms of information communication and production before the Internet. We had:
- TV
- Radio
- Newspaper
- Postal mail service
- Telephone
- Books
Now compare which new forms the information communication and production has been created by the technological revolution of the Internet:
- Webpages
- Instant messaging
- IRC
- Blogs
- Social media
- Github
-…
And the most important: If anything is missing anyone can build it without asking for permission or requiring a privileged position.
The big difference between the old and new model is that it levels the playing field for everybody. You can start your blog and influence others in a way which was not possible before the Internet. Collective production and exchange of information is not anymore a privilege of the elites controlling centralized entities with high entry costs like TV, radio or newspapers. Anyone has the global stage if they have anything to say.
Bitcoin will do the same with money as the Internet has done on the information domain.
DAOs and other new forms for creating new permission-less forms of money and/or economic structures will change the word more profoundly than any political revolution has ever done before.
Same as past technological milestones like the invention of the printing press has changed the world more profoundly than any political revolution.
With such a view I think organic farmers and hippies can also understand that Bitcoin is not about making quick profit by trading stupid ICO tokens but its about changing the world by redefining the basic structures our culture is based on. By making those structures more “emancipated” (in German “gleichberechtigt”) and accessible to everyone it will open up a gate of innovation and creativity.