From my privileged West perspective, fiat money is a slow drip drip form of slavery, where if you work really really really hard you might keep your head above water, you might even get lucky and end up in a boat, where you'll probably assume the system is great and those drowning aren't working hard enough.
Everyone should be in a boat, wealth is great, but if you're born on the rocks, the current system isn't a rubber ring, it's a lead weight.
Nortical analogy aside, imagine the creation of 'things' that could be and where civilisation would be if people were not controlled by a financial system.
It's not working is it?