You show your ignorance man: the opening page of "Common Sense" (1776) says the following :

"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."  

Thomas Paine, had the brightness equivalent to 800-900 of the most intelligent people alive today. He says all government is evil everywhere, you can be certain this is based on objectively provable truths, if he advocates decentralization, it is to allow society to flourish, again this will be based on objectively provable truths.  

From my own research: "the toys and playthings of brightest men and women so often become the new sectors of economies, which bring into being a new prosperity for the Wealth of Nations". It will take a long time, before the common man can wrap their mind's around idea of crypto currencies; it took them 25 years to get their heads around the idea of computers