The benefits I referred to come from the fact that people all over the world can count on the protocol remaining globally accessible and apolitical/neutral. Wit

The benefits I referred to come from the fact that people all over the world can count on the protocol remaining globally accessible and apolitical/neutral. Without that, there would be no global adoption of the value transmission protocol to make the assets issued on top of Ethereum useful at the global scale. We cannot count only on the political system to maintain liberties. We need non-political institutions like cash, and its electronic corollary, cryptocurrency, to ensure certain freedoms, even in the case where the political system fails.