> wonder how people can think it could ever be decentralized when its value is judged based upon the fiat created by those who we are supposed to be escaping. Until such a time that we can buy everything using crypto, it will be subject to the one path it has to the real world that is not this false internet society. The one path owned by the bankers

Well put. It can easily be coopted, and we wouldn't be the wiser. They have so much more money that the whole of the crypto sphere is worth.