If you can supply your own food, you have no need of others.
If you can't supply your own food, then socializing is required, even absent crapitalism.
I can't eat all the okra I'm going to get this year, so I will give some away.

On any given tuesday the workers can continue doing the work while refusing to pay to get that work back, and everything is free for all workers.

We have to have workers, we don't have to have dollars.™
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread

Probably take some socializing to get that message adopted by the masses.

As for having power in the hive, IF we assume that crypto is the future of some percentage of the money whole, then more is better, no?

The question then is, how much of each should we hold.
Only you can decide that.
Will holding hive bring more return than holding fiat?
Will holding hive bring more than farming potatoes?
Will holding btc bring more return?
All questions that each individual will have to determine for themselves.
I can only tell you what is right for me, and I could be wrong about that.

Mass adoption of hive can only come from the whales selling, the inflation alone will not press them from their perch.
I'd recommend learning to trade with money you can afford to lose.
Trading markets is the highest sacrament of crapitalism, it's why wall street banks reserve it for people that already have too much.
Until the people are ready to turn their back on the banks, and corporations they control, we can only expect more of the same.

Probably should account for this reality in any prognostications.