I understand that people may be interested in finding a safe asset to diversify into, but if there is no underlying asset to anchor btc to, it's purely a social

I understand that people may be interested in finding a safe asset to diversify into, but if there is no underlying asset to anchor btc to, it's purely a social consensus. If at some point the economy gets better and people want to invest back into actual stuff, what happens to the late leavers?