Market based economy can be very good for development and efficiency. However it also has many negative effects, that even can prevent the two advantages from happening. Especially for normal consumers it leads to decision fatigue. Sadly nobody wants to reduce the free market anymore even at the places where we know that the negative effects outweigh the positive. As soon as you bring that up some people will proclaim that you're wanting a dictatorship like soviet russia.
Decision fatigue is IMO the number 1 reason these ideas wouldn't work. Imagine making 5 decisions about micro transactions worth fractions of a cent before you even got to work, while shaking off sleep in the morning. You would go insane.
Also, the reliability of the hardware and software. Sometimes my Macbook or iPhone won't connect to a router as expected. Why would I need a bitcoin enabled alarm clock when a low tech solution will also work?
They would've picked much better examples...blockchains are a solution in search of a problem still I think. Voting is one area I think it could have a big impact.
It's noteworthy that most of these things go directly against the grain of how we know people behave when we can afford it.
Metering is typically seen as inferior to un-metered services, to the point that people often happily overpay to avoid having to think about metering.
I pay for unlimited access to a bunch of movie channels. I pay for un-metered internet. I pay for travel cards so my public transport costs are un-metered, and so on.
Likewise, when I've had cleaners, having the hassle of thinking about paying the right amount each week and ensuring holiday cover etc. made us go with an agency with a fixed fee and set up a standing order.
To me, they've described a dystopia that I would pay to avoid: E.g. I'd rather pay that lawnmower repair shop a premium to be the intermediary and provide however much service necessary and give me a single point of contact, than having to deal with whether or not that lawnmower that claims to have cut my grass actually did it and whether it was necessary, and deal with conflicts (what if two of them both claim to have done the job because one of those developers who bid on contracts to do updates found a way of making it lie about the work it'd done?)
So to me, almost of these examples are telling me that Crowley is, if not poor, then at least earning little enough to be stuck in a consumer hell that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
