Take a lump of coal into the market and try to sell it - it will fetch a few pennies. Compress that piece of coal into a diamond and it will yield dollars. It most certainly would fall. Governments printed paper money as a symbol of the precious metals that gave the paper value. Now governments just print money - more and more of it.
Money is paper.
Paper comes from trees. There are a lot of trees. The universe is infinite and abundant. Humanity has chosen scarcity as its commodity of value - hence creating poverty and wealth, have and have nots, rich and poor. The most important fundamental paradigm shift is from scarcity to abundance.