Vitalik Buterin

Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.