I think we can already see it impacting undeveloped countries. Not in the big ways to come... like national news level crumbling of governments and powerstructures big, but it's there. I recently heard (but didn't confirm) Hive already out values every South America country's currency. There are people in Venezuela who could double their quality of life (probably several times over) just by playing Splinterlands at a top tier level.
Lately I see people posting about how they earned enough Leo to buy enough food to last a week and I see posts of people clawing their way out of poverty by staking and re-staking returns.
I, personally, ended last year with about $3k in digital assets. At present I'm sitting around $10k and probably surpassed $12k at the height of this last bull run.
In the last two years I've moved from likely to die broke and destitute to looking forward to an early retirement so I can really get to work building my own personsl empire designed to educate and advance the world.
Where else would one hear something like this?
EDIT to add: ...And I’m not just talking about the financial freedom. I’ve also been hugely impacted by the people here. Every day i hang out here I learn something new and amazing. Taskmaster4450 alone has posted several videos or posts that have not only changed the way I thought about something in particular, but changed the way I see things in general, and he’s not the only one. I’ve grown more here in the past years than I did in the two decades that led me here. Hive doesn’t just offer financial freedom. It offers the tools to carve your own path to personal sovereignty and in time it’ll be the tool the meek use to inherit the earth. There’s just no going back, now. The seeds of the future have been planted in the present. 😁