who is "they"?
fiat money is being slowly devalued but bitcoin's value is rising much faster. there's no point complaining about human nature. it's just rational greed playing out.
The bankers, the FED.
How do you measure that? fiat?
purchasing power. let's compare october 2010 purchasing power to june 2019: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=201010&year2=201906
inflation is up 17%. bitcoin---not accounting for inflation---is up ~94999900% over the same period.
they aren't dumb, they are just rationally greedy. see bitcoin gains in USD vs inflation above. people don't want to be restricted to transacting with the small number of people/merchants/services using bitcoin at this point. they just want the purchasing power---the wealth.
I have obtained bitcoin with no fiat, I have bought items with no fiat, I have traded bitcoin for many things, food, water and computers without any fiat. Never used any fiat to obtain bitcoin, never sold any bitcoin for fiat. I have bitcoin left over and items left over. NO FIAT NEEDED
your items which were bought with fiat? whose supply lines are all paid for with fiat? lol.
why are you using satoshi's writings as support for your position? he obviously wasn't nearly as fanatical as you. his words show that he supported free markets. the only person in the room who thinks bitcoin shouldn't trade against fiat is you.