Aren't you forgetting about the British Pound? It lost a lot of value over the year but I don't think it ever went to 0.
Even if we changed it to 99% of fiat money crashes every 300 years, does it mean we have to wait for it to happen? The Lira is dying as we speak but it won't make people lose everything if they get rid of it and invest.
Fair point. This piqued my interest and I realized for the first time that the British pound has been around since 1209. On Statista there is a statistic about how the value of the pound has changed from then to now.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1031884/value-pound-sterling-since/The value is indeed close to zero, but probably not quite zero. Interestingly, there was even a period in the late Middle Ages when the pound remained very stable for over 300 years.
The thing about pound back then and pound now (well about almost each money historically and today) is the fact that today's problem lies within the capitalist system making its own decision to grow bigger in numbers to show the world it is profiting while destroying the worth of money.
Wealthy people would rather print 10 trillion dollars, give 9 trillion of it to rich people, and 1 trillion to poor people so they can spend on places rich people have and gain that 1 trillion as well, and make their money worthless basically however they will be capable of showing increasing profits on their shareholder meeting. That's literally it, as long as companies can show that they have made billions in profit, they are fine that those billions worth less money than few million hundred years ago, they do not care about the power of their money, they only care about what they have.