I like the OP's vision but I don't think you can have a successful MAS without first having a profitable DAC but this is just my opinion..
I don't like very much the new approach of
@bytemaster about philosophizing and not "build it and they will come" but anyone is entitled to do and say as he please..
I wish that we build a community that everyone is jealous about it and want to join. There was a time that we had a community like this before numerous mistakes and failed over promises. We are by far a community that other communities are jealous anymore..
I am a very very optimistic person and most of the times I live "in my own small clouds" so I still believe that bitshares will be something great eventually and much much bigger than what bitcoin is. I really hope that we become a strong community again, but unless we manage to somehow attract new business, new investors, rise our market cap to respectable levels and hold there for sometime, I think people will continue to complain and a mutual aid society will not happen easily. So my conclusion is make people some serious profits, make them happy and then MAS will be more easy. Not vice versa..