The long term benefit of decentralized autonomous companies is the creation of millions of information-based jobs that allow everyone to make money by contributing what they know to the market. Whether you love music, inventions, news articles, insurance, or currency speculation there will be ample opportunities for people to make money on what they know.
Consensus technology has the power to do for economics what the internet did for information.
Consensus technology has the power to make governments irrelevant to the provision of law, courts, crime prevention, contract enforcement, voting, or any other so-called public good.
I am not claiming that governments will be overthrown or that people will vote them out of office, instead I mean to say that their rulings and opinions will be of no practical significance once superior consensus technologies are able to garner more influence and power through voluntary, nonviolent, entirely legal action than governments can wield at gunpoint.
Consensus technology can harness the combined power of all humanity to coordinate the discovery and aggregation of real-time knowledge previously unobtainable. This knowledge can be used to more effectively coordinate the allocation of resources toward their most productive and valuable use.