Actually not quite - dollars themselves are worth nothing, same way meters, or liters are worth nothing. They purely a convenience unit of measurement, so that a baker selling bread to a plumber doesn't first have to find flour mill that needs plumbing services to make the transaction.

Crypto is by design made artificially scarce, largely because people don't understand the first point. This is also why no one besides dark web ehm "shoppers" actually transacts with crypto.