ICOS were not perfect by any means. But they did allow the poor access to accredited investor level opportunities.
But do you know rich people have better access to bitcoin than the poor? It is the rich who has better knowledge about bitcoin and gets better information when to acquire and wait for bull. A poor guy may likely can't research and understand halving, time for bull and other factors necessary to hodl or dump.
The rich has investing power more than the poor and can acquire and manipulate the space against the poor.
Indeed, with the regularly updated knowledge plus modern technologies that the rich have, the opportunity for them to trade and make money with bitcoin is always very easy, even for those who are super rich, they combine together and manipulate the psychology of the market, if the poor do not have enough intelligence here, they will lose all their assets after just a few manipulations. Speaking of the situation of Africa, they still belong to a poor and lacking modern continent, only a handful of people can afford access to bitcoin and of them, only a small part can escape poverty