Bitcoin may just as easily be controlled. Financial rewards create an inequality. By paying someone to run the network, power is given away. Bitcoin already has this problem, where a few mining pools control more than half of the total hashrate. No coin is immune as long as it offers some kind of monetary rewards for the system’s "maintainers”.

Inequality will always lead to centralisation
A seemingly decentralised coin becomes just another fork of the current financial order where the wealthy few can manipulate the system as they see fit.