What I think we can do and I may be the first to say this in public, is I want to see Tauchain be useful for saving lives. Specifically we save our own lives by curing cancer, by developing anti aging supplements, and we can use the tokenization and securities model to do it in such a way that it is fully compliant. If we can get it right we could raise the necessary money in an ICO which gives everyone the right to have profit shares from the treatment or the cure as well as access to whatever successful treatment gets developed.
It is true the current model allows for corporations to do studies but we can do this decentralized more effectively. For one the FDA has strict regulations but not every country does. So this could allow for biohacking and anti-aging studies to take place in an accelerated pace. At the same time cancer specifically can be seen as a threat to damn near everybody just going off the risk statistics so it is in your best interest and mine to cure it.
If one of us does not end up getting cancer someone we know and love will. So why aren't each of us contributing to curing it right now? Well we don't have the ability to contribute is why. We can't even effectively do protein folding yet. So we need to develop the means to decentralize medical research and anti-aging research in my opinion starting with cancer. Aging is a more controversial and difficult target.
Success can be measured both in profitability for the token holders and in lives saved. I don't know about everyone else but I want to live as long as possible. I also want to be healthy as long as possible. Anyone who agrees should want to do anything it takes to achieve that for themselves.
And think about it what is more mainstream than to save lives? I'm also suggesting that mainstream ability is assured if there are more lives being saved than lives put at risk by a technology. One problem with Ethereum and crypto right now is all the universalized use cases are being over shadowed by what I'll call ideologically rigid use cases. I don't mind libertarians or anarchists but I think saving lives is more important than any ideology.
Saving life with all what one is determined to use for saving lives can also be seen as an ideology in itself. It has the ideal notion that prolonging life and conquer death is good in total.
It does not ask the question at what point an individual decides to let lose on either manipulating the process of aging or dying. Staying young and fighting death dominates this ideal notion.
This is good seen in hospitals where the vow of a doctor comes into conflict with those wanting to accompany the dying. If one is not considered having entered the process of death than it makes no sense to give him company on this path. So people die often alone and in agony or totally drugged because there is no one feeling responsible to accompany them on their last ride. While the medical staff is still in hurry to safe the patients life, it happens nevertheless that the patient dies. If all life saving efforts fail it is not unusual that staff and doctors blame themselves and feel they have lost a battle. This causes a lot of mental pain.
From my experience I can say that treatment in hospitals where actually even the blindest could see that a 86 year old patient cannot be saved and will die of her diseases there was still no one who either was clear in saying so or giving us relatives the assurance that we could express freely our longing for peace and quiet in encountering our mother. I felt being robbed of the needed opportunities to be there for my mom. There is no space for relatives, you cannot be there over night, no room for contemplation or even exchanging consoling words between staff and visitors.
In fact, the fear of death has become so huge that the poor dying person has to carry the whole burden, seeing his relatives not being able to let him go. A lot of times this makes the dying person holding on to his life even though he actually wants to go. On top this human must deal with fearful medical assistants and doctors which spread a great uneasiness towards him or her and avoid making empathic contact. There is not much expertise with death to be found in a hospital.
Also see those who do not care about formulating a last will during their healthy lifetimes and then, getting sick and die all of a sudden - leaving their relatives with the burden to decide on life-supporting measures not exactly knowing what the patient might want when he cannot speak for himself. Never talked before about those important matters. The same with the inheritance of belongings, which are then to be divided up by the bereaved and one begins to quarrel because a relative did not consider it necessary to take care of the welfare of his bereaved, since death was a personal insult.
Though I have nothing against using medicine and treatment for being cured from cancer I think that saving lives is not a broad enough approach towards what humanity also means beyond saving lives.