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.