If you've been round since the beginning (I have) you would see that most of the prominent figures in btc are/have been involved in shady business practices.

Almost all of them spout that same rhetoric about fighting the power but ended up filthy rich and wanting more. Most of them would sell their own mother down the river for a few satoshis.

In a bitcoin maximalist scenario you still end up with a wealthy ruling elite, just a different lot of greedy douchebags controlling all the money.