Someone, who lived alone in the woods could avoid bitcoin.
And barring us all returning to the stone age, decentralized technology will rule the world, it is that much better.
Why will bitcoin replace the dollar, because it is that much better!
Like the ease of credit cards, but without the fraud… and more.
(you can see your transaction, you know where the money has gone, they know where the money came from, they can see the transaction, and it can't be stolen by dishonest cashiers.)
It is only a matter of time.
If someone explained all the advantages of accepting crypto to a store owner, they would probably throw you out for lying. It is just too good to be true.
Now do gunpowder
A person alone in the woods can also avoid gunpowder, and yet those types are the most likely to have a gun for defense and hunting. This person also finds themselves largely defenseless in other ways and can be killed in a thousand times over due to not having access to medical care, like getting taken out by a bacterial infection.
At the end of the day the hermit in the woods didn't avoid society at all and existed at the mercy of the current system in charge. Just because that system might ignore the hermit because the hermit doesn't have any resources that anyone wants doesn't mean they magically avoided the powers that be. As pointed out in the original example: the bigger the organization in question the more forced they are into adopting disruptive technology. The individual in this case is largely irrelevant; just like I have never personally owned a gun. This is why I find the analogy to be so compelling.
I totally should have added all the stipulations, like the hermit never goes to town, doesn't interact with anyone but other hermits… for if he did any of those things, he would run into bitcoin.
This is one of those paradigm shift that will be, "grandpa, what did you do before the distributed ledger technology?"
I think it's even more interesting to look at religious Luddites such as the Amish due to the community aspect.
They don't use technology but are still surrounded by it.
And when the bill comes due on property tax they can still lose everything.
That's the main reason most corrupt persons won't like cryptocurrency because the transparency is sick and mad