> What's more important: fast wealth or privacy?
Sound money is what's important. Privacy is too, but is mutually exclusive with the ability to audit the blockchain, which supports confidence in its soundness. The only way you can get both is through a second layer solution (or maybe by proving your system doesn't have an inflation bug, which is hard with asymmetric cryptography).
Also, my understanding is that monero has scaling limitations just like bitcoin does, which means transactions may not always be cheap. Monero's privacy is also not an absolute guarantee. This podcast was very good on understanding how difficult privacy and scaling are: https://fountain.fm/episode/1LiBxWAojDCBm1pGFhGd
Monero scales worse in regards to resources to run a node vs Bitcoin. But it scales better than Bitcoin in regards to number of transaction and transaction fees because of dynamic blocksize. More transactions =/= higher fees on Monero.
FCMP++ upgrade is well in motion and will fix Moneros relatively weaker sender privacy with ring signatures discussed in this podcast. Amount and receiver privacy is already very strong.
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