The money, whether "precious" metals, fiat, or bitcoin, that the modern era uses to ledgerise all of creation has no connection with reality. Modern money has no relation to productivity. The value of money is determined merely via interest rates, arbitrarily set by the mercantile banking cartel. Much of government revenue derives not from taxation of production, but via credit expansion through lower interest rates. National debt fueled the modern era, and the next era, our overlords imagine, will be ushered via global debt.
This world has been built upon the aether of virtual money. From aether this world arose, and to aether this world shall return.
You are not wrong, yet blood and treasure was expended on this endeavor, and will yield it's reward.
That may not be the reward the investors seek, however.