Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else. People also don't like to step out of their comfort zone, and not having social media is seen by some as a social taboo and as isolationary by some.
FDR won 4 consecutive elections not because he had "good messaging", but because he actually delivered for the people. Republicans had to instill term limits because they didn't want that happening again.
You think he would have won even a second term if he didn't get the US out of the Great Depression with his policies? WWII economy also played a part here, but in modern times, the US has been in perpetual war with several different countries, and the only people getting rich off that are the wealthy few, again, due to policy.
Because Democratic politicians don't believe in anything other than protecting their wealthy donors. Neoliberalism is a cancer, and progressivism/socialism is the way to defeat it. The neoliberals will do anything in their power to protect their wealthy donors, even if that means letting Republicans win, because they would rather see a Republican win than a socialist gain any sort of power.
Hell, they even fight against very mild social democratic politicians like Bernie Sanders.
Nah, if he speeds up the train, he gets 1000% profit. He just refuses to stop the train because he would only get a 300% profit, which is less growth than last year's 500%, so shareholders would be unhappy.
There is already a PoW crypto that is actually private called Monero. It uses ring signatures to sign transactions and rotating public keys to keep public keys private. It also happens to be relatively stable since it's basically the only crypto that people use as a currency (generally to buy illegal contraband online). It's PoW though, so has the energy consumption issues.
Since it's PoW, though, it still consumes buckets. Something I thought looked cool was Chia coin, which somehow uses hard drive space as a consensus algorithm which saves a ton of electricity, but I haven't read the whitepaper on that, so I don't fully understand it.
Or a decentralized alternative that isn't just used to scam people, that doesn't eat up insane amounts of electricity to process, and is as convenient as regular money.
In reality, private corporations should not have control over money at all. Money is printed by the local government and should be controlled by the local government. Governments generally have better free speech protections than private corporations, which have none. Obviously, free speech protections are not universal, but countries can already ban content in other ways.
Then people would have to get specific cards or crypto or whatever that aren't Visa/MasterCard in order to buy Steam games. That, of course, is if you can get banks to agree to carry "Steam cards". Either that, or everyone would need to buy Steam gift cards as an exclusive form of payment.
All of these are much less convenient than keeping your existing debit/credit card to pay for Steam games, and less convenience means less sales.
And also after Trump just the other day decided to unban insane asylums.