doctors save lives, firemen make our homes safe, astronauts explore the outer space etc...
bitcoins do nothing except pushing numbers around to make the early adaptors rich.
Your first premise is generally true, but what about your second premise?
bitcoins do nothing except pushing numbers around to make the early adaptors rich.
I know it probably seems that way to you, but there are always new adapters who come along and confound the earlier adapters.
You just have to figure out how to become a new adapter able to confound the earlier adapters.