This is a nice example of the "disengage from the system" strategy being really flawed. Interacting in the political arena is the opposite of fun or sexy; but for stuff like this, especially, it's consequential. Perhaps on generational timescales the technological force latent in the world will be too strong to resist, and politics will give way, as with the printing press.

But on the timescale of a human life, plain vanilla political pressure gives high leverage. Ceding control of the political arena means it takes an extra decade or two to unwind stupidity that affects hundreds of millions of people. Bad ROI.