No, the average person doesn't care if it's global, they don't care if it's decentralized. What the average person cares about is if it works to buy food and pay their bills. Now investors are quite a bit different beast and also well off global travelers.
this is a good reply so this thread didn't have to go to 5 pages perhaps,
but if we think further,
someone in power has to be both aware of the flaws in the current system, and
want to "break free" from it?
we don't need the middleman, but yet governments and banks are fighting so hard to keep it. to get to the next stage in civilization we must get past this point!