Co-operation doesn't scale very well to millions of participants in most parts of the world. Distributed consensus cannot be done very reliably in most societies. I've listened to a lot of African and Latin American Steemians and been forced to conclude that Africans in particular are at a great risk of being falling pray to external powers again - China this time. The solution to the chaos and short-sighted self-maximization in those parts of the world that is destroying them does not come from the governments. It's up to the individuals or whatever largest units of internal trust and cohesion that exist there to start creating peer-to-peer networks aided by distributed consensus technology bypassing centralized power structures entirely.
It has to start at a level where the government controlling state mechanisms of coercion are unable to interfere. Peer-to-peer networks of information and commerce will probably arise out of sheer necessity as centralized service providers such as power companies or Internet service providers fail due to lack of maintenance and being stripped of assets by nepotistic and corrupt officials.
It is not going to be a quick fix, it is a slow grind that I personally don't expect to see the results of but, it has already started.
In many off those places the centralized systems are already crumbling so they might be the first early adopters to use distributed networks at the local levels. Look at how they organise the transfer of Steem into local currencies already while we are waiting for Coinbase. Necessity as they say.
The risk with China is them making life lived easier through working centralization and they have some experience.
Yes, Venezuela, for example, has a fiat-Steem bridge implemented called Orinoco or something.
China is indeed poised to show a very bad example. The Chinese have a long tradition of centralization. Where they're going with their social credit scores is nothing short of nightmarish. The Chinese will be able to technically pull it off but because they have pretty bad problems with abuse of power the system will no doubt cause major problems.