A prosperous societey means individual rights, private property AND the general understanding that being rich, not by being friend of the government types, but by the merit of making useful products or services for the consumer, is respectable and deserved.
But you can't have it both ways. There is nothing I did that made me potentially deserve anything when I bought a bitcoin. I simply exchanged one method of storing value for another. Sure, bitcoin has some usefulness as a tool for barter, but why would we attribute a value to it, when bitcoins being traded for bitcoins is pointless. If there is only a finite amount of value just as there is a finite amount of resources and people, then where is that value coming from?
Just because you can't see the value in what someone does, does not mean there isn't any.
In barter, you trade what you have for what you want. Money is a way to abstract that transaction out. You still trade what you have for what you want, but it doesn't need to be with the same person, or at the same time. You complete your half, giving what you have, for an IOU. Later, you redeem that IOU with someone else to get what you want.
By holding that IOU, you let society use your wealth, your capital. You hope that you'll get back a value similar to what you traded first, plus the growth of the capital you let society use.
But money doesn't have a fixed or objective value. It is subjective, just like everything else. By holding that IOU, you are also taking the risk that you might not be able to trade it for what you initially gave up. You might not be able to trade it at all. Particularly with bitcoin. By holding your IOU in the form of bitcoin, you are taking a
huge risk. There is also a
huge potential upside, but that isn't at all a sure thing.