Upvoted! Understood where you are going; however, @stan I need electricity to run my computers and routers, I need telephony for the Internet and I need an OS and software to access Bitshares, etc. When the elite finally flick the switch you can guarantee that to get electricity or more importantly access the internet it will be harder than it is now. Bitshares is part of the solution but as some steemians who live in countries with more authoritarian regimes know they need to go to considerable lengths to mask their activities.

To those living in supposedly democratic countries ("the free world?") please understand that the majority of the population is as free as the elite in government (or shadow government) allow. For many you are "modern day slaves", the elite know that if they can keep the major happy and satisfied, they will not need to spend a lot on security forces to control a rowdy population as they will live out their lives oblivious to the truth (or happy not to ask the difficult question/s) - in the meantime they just keep working for the elite.

So coming back to my point - people can now generate their own electricity - say with solar, they can get reliable computer systems that run open source OS and software that will last many years - now we need a method of meshing our decentralised computers together without the traditional wired (or government regulated wireless) internet.