Pick a niche, assess it, get some ideas going, use those ideas to improve the niche. Others pick other niches and do the same.
I mean thats literally what historically human progress looks like.
Dark Ages, Renaissance, Feudalism, Gutenbergs printing press and the first jump in improving information exchange, Germ Theory, Nikola Tesla, PCs, Windows, The Internet, Bitcoin...etc.

The Black Plague killed 1/3 of Europeans. The society didnt collapse.

There is no better system. There is only current system+.
Crypto is part of that +. AI is part of that +. What ever other great invention to come.