is the dream really dead?

I don't post here much anymore, but it's weird to come back to the sub today and see what it's like right now.

It has become pretty obvious that a significant amount of people here are only interested in getting rich. And that makes me a little sad, because cryptocurrency has a lot more to offer than that.

I envisioned a world where the people had managed to take monetary control back from the government, and private industry. Instead, we'll end up using CBDCs and centralized, company-specific bastard "cryptos" that will only work with specific retailers.

I assume Satoshi is dead, but I kinda wonder what he'd think watching BTC and the others that followed in its steps as they're reduced into nothing more than vessels for more pointless wealth hoarding.