When I talk to 'normies' about Bitcoin, Hive, or any other blockchain in general, they still don't get the idea of ownership and why it is so important. People have been brainwashed to think that someone else is supposed to take care of them and then they get all butt hurt when something doesn't work right and they have someone to blame and complain to. Basically the population has turned into a bunch of lazy "Karens".
People are scared to take ownership over their own money and data. They think they are safer letting someone else control it. Same thing that we were talking about the other day with infrastructure. People always want to rely on someone else to 'handle it'.
Web3 will start to grow when the mass population really sees the need to take back control over their money, AND data. For now, it's just a bunch of freedom loving nerds and a bunch of 'nUmBeR-gO-uP' morons, and will stay that way again until the masses see the need, or someone finally starts developing for every day people and not just developing for nerds and to impress other developers. We need a Web3 that is as easy to use as any Web2 platform out there. For now, we don't have that.
Just my dudely opinion on the subject...
Another financial crisis, followed by the forced conversion of bank credits into CBDCs could be what's needed for people to realize the benefits of personal data ownership.
Maybe, I am not very hopeful in the general population at the moment, haha. Most will look at CBDCs as some kind of “safety and security” or some BS like that.
True, the majority will probably think that way. But a growing minority will not be okay with it.
This is true, more and more people are starting to wake up.