"2. People mostly just want to work when and where they want with clear objectives and a chance to earn a good chunk of what their labor produces. I would argue for many that having a decent equity stake in a startup that is worldwide remote solves for this."

So true. And the challenge to this, at least in Europe, has nothing to do with technology - it's a legal challenge. The process of issuing and trading shares of a company is super simple in itself, it's the regulation that makes it hard.

And since securities regulations apply to things like profit-sharing tokens... then, good job, you just solved nothing and made the tech 10x harder.