What you're missing is that it's not like this in many/most? places outside the US.
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I get that and agree. Totally more valuable as a payment mechanism in developing countries over developed. I do talk about that a number of times here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/navigating-bitcoins-noise/id1583424361