Stories shape civilizations and numbers build skyscrapers. You'd probably agree that abstractions are at least as real as things they describe. The truth is that an accurate description of a pattern that has manifested thousands of times is more real than any single example. The principles of sound money aren't theory. They're an abstraction of what worked across thousands of years of storing and transferring value in systems from barter to fiat. Bitcoin embodies the principles of sound money by design and protects them from corruption through a genius solution for consensus. If abstractions are as real as what they describe and Bitcoin embodies the principles of sound money - then Bitcoin is sound money.