You lost the alternate life where you didn't have to pull your kid out of school and move cross country. You lost the business you could have started. Buyers of gold lost the option to purchase from you and bought from further away at a higher total cost. As CEO of the world, would you want idle resources sitting around or would you want them to be in the hands of someone who would use them? It seems like it would be best to reassign people who work in destructive roles that diminish/obscure value to more productive roles that create value.