Forgive me for my complete ignorance, but how is what you say in the quote below such a huge opportunity?

Here we have a decentralized database, in the era of mass computing, which requires nothing more than resource credits to utilize. And how many are taking advantage of this?

Maybe somebody can explain to me how the average person can use data collection to their benefit and/or to take advantage of opportunities that are opening up in the world and web 3.