the other main reason is because corporations have the incentive and means to actually understand the difference between for example Dash or Cryptonote/Monero and Zcash's zk-snarks, and they have an incentive to adopt privacy on public block chains, whereas outside of our small libertarian echo chamber, the mainstream demographics of individuals do not care
I explained all of that above in terms she could understand, but I also made the point that the masses are blithely unfocused on the implications of ubiquitous government surveillance because they are not impacted by it now and they are focused on what they want and need. Thus I think a focus on DIY culture and decentralized social networking might be the most effective means for the long-term political-economic fight ahead
I can understand both points made in the first quoted paragraph, I agree businesses have the incentive to use decentralized systems which could yield savings and solves many issues of enterprise computing (these are scalability and high availability as I have heard it from the Gadgetnet developers). I also agree the mainstream demographics of individuals couldn't care less about such technology. I can understand from your explanation that average Facebook and other social network users - your target audience - will be the very last group of users who will be interested in decentralised technology. They are perfectly happy with any centralized client software.
Thought I am not sure if the mass will be ever focused on the implications government surveillance later if such users don't care now (which is related with the second quoted paragraph). It seems to me the majority of users aren't interested in libertarian concepts and have been happily giving up freedom to authorities. This especially true in the case of your main target audience, the Asian societies. Maybe I misunderstand your business plan, but it seems to me your business plan is based on the assumption, that the technologically dumb 90% of users (who couldn't care less about the back in system) later will need a decentralized system. If we take out the end-to-end encryption as due to incoming government regulations it is not feasible, then from end user viewpoint decentralized systems do not provide more to end users than centralized systems do, in fact it is more difficult to use a decentralized system. But you could be right, I know you think through these issues and see many more aspects of the problem then I unable to see and understand.