it sucks that purchasing power is lost for people without lots of money. It seems inherently an unfair system - if you stop producing value, your existing store of value diminishes thru no fault of your own.
To paraphrase Silvio Gesell, an economist in favor of symbolic currency almost a century ago, "All the physical assets of the world are at the disposal of those who wish to save, so why should they make their savings in the form of money? Money was not made to be saved!"
ie: you don't need to buy whole companies outright to avoid saving in currency.