Systems that incentivize unethical action produce corrupt leaders. A system that rewards productive action will produce leaders who are legitimate heroes. And we will be proud of them, and respect them the way leaders are meant to be respected.

Not buying it. This revolution brings us back in balance with the natural state of evolution, which says that cooperation and collaboration is a more effective path forward than coercion and manipulation. We had an incredible idea: a market good that is not for consumption, but instead for facilitating trade, and we called it money. The problem is, that because money is fundamentally an idea, we couldn't get it to work in the physical realm and instead we created flawed systems which rewarded those of us maladjusted enough to take advantage of these flaws, and for millenia, the winning strategy has been to cheat and manipulate. However, there is still a strong part of us alive that says, "moral action is the best path forward," even as those of us who continue to believe this fundamental truth watch the amoral and unjust continue to win, century after century. Now that Satoshi has put money into the space it was always meant to exist: the informational realm- where ideas are meant to live, we can get back on track. Just a couple thousand year diversion., no big deal.

I think you have to adjust your filter. Look at it this way- for thousands of years, humans have been forced navigate systems that incentivized unethical and amoral action. For all this time, the winning strategy has been to cheat, deceive, manipulate, and coerce. What you should be thinking about is how amazing it is that a spark of understanding within us still lives: that the best path forward is through cooperation and collaboration, not coercion and corruption. If this side of us has been able to remain alive in the face of generations worth of systems that incentivized it's demise, I would say that it's actually pretty damned strong, and now that we have a system that actually incentivises moral action, I don't think it will be too long until the moral and the just will inherit the earth.