It's not that people want what you think they want, you are making a judgment based on a technology that is being circumvented.
Whether or not a Knowledge Age could alter the incentives people had as serfs is irrelevant to the chasm in front of us on this reset, which Bitcoin does not have the immutable attributes to cross.
We get there with the collective wisdom of the crowd, not by a central authority, Bitcoin is just the last key to completing the internet.