If the system was okay and very valuable and people had control over there money without any second or third party interfering just like we have in bitcoin right now do you think bitcoin would have succeeded after being created, do you think people would have still chose to store their money in bitcoin?
There is no system that will be okay and that is why they say change is constant. The main difference that stands bitcoin out from fiat, silver, gold and altcoins plus other commodities that have been used as money is
decentralization. So whether the fiat system was controlled by government or not, I believe it was time for bitcoin to be born like other technological achievements made in different areas of human existence, like the new age in computer science and knowledge, in health care system, in space technology, in aerobic or aerospace, in water system body/transports, warfare technologies, nuclear energy and sciences etc, we can name all the modern technologies known to human history today. So it was just timely for fiat and financial system to be revolutionized also and here we have digital currency called cryptocurrency and bitcoin is the decentralized among them all, the digital gold. The community currency with the freedom of use, own, invest and hodl.