difficulty level associated with "mining" white gold is just as high as that of mining metallic gold

Awesome analogy even if it was apparent. I do not recall reading it in another post. Hats off to Captain Obvious.

Improving working conditions requires farmers to not only have funds available but to also know how to spend these funds appropriately on their Cotton business.

This is how the media is failing the public, that blockchains offer a way for individuals to take the helm and supplant the centralized CEOs of FB, twitter, Amazon etc. Awesome.