Granted public blockchain is a lot more discoverable, but a lot of this already is public. Property ownership is public (at least in the US), credit cards sell your data, facebook knows which groups you belong to, etc.
New doesn't always mean better, and it's often objectively and demonstrably worse than what preceded it.
I have a public map overlay on my phone that gives me deed information for (AFAIK) every parcel I can see in the USA.
Granted you can have an LLC own property, but that's a different obfuscation mechanism.
Wouldn't it be ideal if open source apps and platforms could go beyond the slow and risky traditional donation model, not have to be entirely user-hosted or hosted by a paid company, and fully accessible to non-technical users? Imagine social media platforms not susceptible to the pettiness of absolutist employees and owners, MMORPGs not debilitated by IP holders, cryptographically secured cloud software that follows the needs of its users. Perhaps like communes such projects are forever limited by the requirement of a modicum of participant interest and cost-sharing.
Cryptocurrency not only doesn't help much, but even goes backwards there. You think the government is bad? Imagine life in NFT land. Your gym ticket is a NFT. Your movie ticket is a NFT. Your house deed is a NFT.
So everyone you interact with knows where you work, how much you earn, what you own, where's your house, what you buy, what groups you belong to... and they can keep tracking you forever if you tell them who you are just once.
They can treat you preferentially or charge you more or ban you depending on your past history.
Sure, there's Monero, but nobody seems to really care about that one.
> It's a shame that the "get rich quick" grifters and speculators took ahold of it and have killed any chance of normal people adopting it as a regular form of payment.
It's built into the system. The early makers like Satoshi wanted a deflationary system. A deflationary system is inherently undesirable for usage as a currency, and makes it just the thing for HODLing and speculation.
You could have inflation, but who controls it? There are no good answers.