I know this is not exactly in relation to Bitcoin. I may be in the wrong forum.
Considering with all the failures of the money systems in the past. That only benefit the government and wealthy.
I know there were systems that did benefit the people. At least were more systems that offered a fairer playing field. I know those systems did get shot down by the "powers that be"
What systems, would you all know of, that did work or could have worked better in the past? More less the non digital era of anything more less?
The truth is that all systems have some flaws and you have no way but to try to get around them.
The barter system was very slow and you depended on the other person needing what you had.
Commodity money was better but most of the commodities did not had all the characteristics of money.
The coinage of precious metals was important in history since it was the first time we had real money, but it was subject to fraud by people modifying the coins in some way or form.
Representative money is money in which a piece of paper is backed by something, like precious metals, this is good but it gives governments the power to defraud us and they have abused this power through history.
Fiat Money is the current paradigm, a bunch of paper notes and numbers in a computer screen which are backed by nothing and that the government can print at will with no limit and when you add fractional reserve banking on top of that then this is not going to end well.
Finally cryptocurrencies, while cryptocurrencies have many advantages over all of those forms of money there are many flaws as well, there are thousands of coins, many do not have any limit on the amount of coins that will be created, and there is no guarantee governments will not take control of this market by creating representative cryptocurrencies and later fiat cryptocurrencies as they did in the past.