Overreact much? The point is, we're all slaves to the all mighty [insert currency here], working indefinitely just to live in a commercial world.
Work is inevitable. You could dream of pre-Industrial Revolution Europe, but then you got to take back tuberculosis and other maladies, along with buildings that would struggle to pass modern code, and having to go through many babies just to get 2 long-living ones. And horse manure in the streets.
Currency's effect on things is vastly overstated. It is the production function, which constitutes labor and capital, that more accurately represents economic might, whereas currency only exists and is used because it facilitates exchange of goods better than bartering. Whether it is a coin made of pure gold, paper money, or these virtual currencies, what good are they in their own right? They are nothing but tools to buy something of some sort of use, aka a good".
And not only that, but the interactions between various variables of a currency can be vulnerable to are indeed, independent of the central authority or lack thereof.
And it is not overreaction given the way how slaves are viewed on a personal level and how they are generally treated. Slaves were viewed as PROPERTY; the equivalent of a table, axe, gun, etc. Owned and solely at the master's control. Mere tools to do manual labor in conditions. And for women, they get the "luxury" of producing bastards with the "master" or being a prostitute. And of course, something they can literally be bought and sold with no regard to the wishes of the slave himself.