Yup, but the most effective way to explain it is that it’s just like cash. Criminals use cash, and criminals use Monero, and largely for the same reasons. For non-criminals like myself, the benefits are:
low transaction fees
fast transactions
pretty stable values
Or in other words, it works like cash, just digital. Like cash:
businesses can’t track me
governments can’t track me
there are no foreign transaction fees
Monero is our best option for a digital, non-government issued currency. It’s as close as we’ll get to digital cash.