No, THAT seems disingenuous.
I am working on crypto because I want to help these oppressed, unlucky people who are born into terrible regimes that are very hard to escape. I literally work on open source, gratis projects that do not generate any money for me.
Save pontification for investors.
Crypto is a first-world solution to mostly non-existent problems. "The poor unwashed and huddled masses of unbanked in authoritarian regimes will surely be helped by a system that requires smartphones, always-on internet, and trips to limited offline currency exchanges (heavily monitored in authoritarian regimes) to get any value out of fictional tokens" isn't a solution you want to make others believe it is.
False. It doesn't require always-on internet.
False. It doesn't require offline currency exchanges.
Try fleeing Brazil or Russia with significant amounts of cash. Either you cannot do it through legacy banking systems, or you cannot do it in real life with cash, or you have to pay an extortionist bribe in real life.
Why is it that "we're providing basic financial services to the unwashed and huddled poor masses of the unbanked" always becomes "move large amounts of money from one jurisdiction to another without any government control look Russia Brazil" (but in reality international monetary fraud).
Would you argue Jews should leave all their money behind in Nazi Germany when fleeing?
By your logic, Nazi Germany should have the right to inspect and disallow the transfer.
Just because it is a government making an arbitrary decision, that doesn't make it morally right.
Mmm. Godwin's Law. I haven't seen one in the wild for a loooong time.
It's about giving people slightly better odds of escaping abuse. It's about helping humanity.