"Regardless of where society stands, it always moves forward. That means innovation, experimentation, and development."
Oh...am not so certain of this.
I've lived in the South where it seems people fight change and PREFER to live in the past. I look at our present government and it's efforts to return to the social scheme of the fifties (and prior) when women were chattel and everyone else "knew their place".
Even dealing with cryptocurrency appears to have united the US government as a foe. Platforms like Nexo and BlockFi have been bitch-slapped into compliance by the SEC, even to the point where once-thriving BlockFi is now dealing with bankruptcy.
And there has been talk of the proposed federal CBDC, which will oversee and control common citizen finance. This last might be examples of "innovation, experimentation, and development", but not in the best interests of the average citizen.