Thought experiment: if your whole decentralised trustless thing relies on some centralised economy to drive it (say in a conically extending square formation),

Thought experiment: if your whole decentralised trustless thing relies on some centralised economy to drive it (say in a conically extending square formation), it clearly is pretty useless, so imagine you could actually bever cash out your tokens, only use them for consumption (and the same rule hold for everyone else). What's the value/opportunity?