Shared governance is attractive, even if it has no teeth. DAOs and token-based crowdfunding campaigns showed that people are much more likely to contribute if there is a built-in mechanism to vote on how their money is spent and how their favorite companies are run.
The public blockchain amounts to a single, massive users table for the entire Internet, and the next wave of distributed applications will be built on top of it.
The fun thing about the game called life is that no one really knows what we are doing here. And once you can really accept that you realize that finding out what comes next can be quite interesting.