And yet fiat can be endlessly printed. Come on lets not fool ourselves. You know what governments do when they want more money to be thrown around? They print more. They do this endlessly.
It's worthless.
Which doesn't actually give anyone more wealth. It just creates more money...
"Worth" is not a tangible thing. It's whatever people value a thing at.
Money, be it fiat or otherwise, has value because we give it value.
Land, gold, etc. also has no actual intrinsic value... we just ascribed value to those things.
The most powerful people in the world have power not due to their fiat currency, but their other assets.
I mean for fuck sake, a video recording of a politician fucking a child is worth more than all the money in the world.
There are certainly things more a valuable than money. But I suspect that there absolutely would be a fiat currency number that could acquire such a thing as you say. But if it's more valuable for the potential seller to keep it... then they won't sell.
I ascribe value to "hours of my time". I won't offer up hours of my time to work for less than a certain x number of Fiat Currency per.
The rich need to convert their assets into fiat currency to actually DO anything with them. Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter with stock options or tracts of land. He bought it with American Dollars.