The so-called west is actually a minority of the population and I would even dare say real workforce.

Yes, it's important, and the dollar makes it worse, but it's not everything. MSM makes it so that it seems everyone cares about Europe or US. People in Asia care very little about the troubles US brings to itself, as well as further down South in America (the continent!) and Africa.

I am neither taxed nor need to report my bitcoin spending or hodling in any of the three jurisdictions I live. So I do exactly that, spend it.