If bitcoin did not exist and tomorrow there would have been the ICO of Bitcoin, would you buy it? Or would you invest in other projects?
if there were an ICO for bitcoin then it wouldn't have been called bitcoin anymore, instead it would have been called a
shitcoin and i only buy shitcoins for trading purposes to make profit on the bitcoins that i already have.
unlike altcoins bitcoin was not created to make the creator of it rich. Satoshi never made bitcoin to earn money. he made bitcoin to make a decentralized currency. and such creation does not need an ICO or any other shenanigans to raise free money out of thin air.