Random fiction world building idea:

Playing off the concept of "What if dragons aren't greedy but instead there's a benefit to them to make a nest out of gold?"

A world where dragons sleep on gold coins because it is a soft metal (coins because chips slide around and maybe help with molting?).

Easy start, but adding more to it: what if because of their bodyheat, weight, firebreathing, and scales they grind down and compress the gold as time passes. But then it becomes less comfortable, kinda like an old pillow that becomes flat.

What if they happily exchange chunks of this compressed gold for new gold coins?

So I'm imagining a world in which people get compressed gold from dragons and carve it into coins and distribute it. But then as the coins get handed around over time, they start to wear and resoften, and when too soft they get exchanged at the dragon horde again for a new compressed coin.

Economy as an ecosystem!

(Also Dragons obviously hate the 1% because they horde the gold without any real need, like if someone was causing a pillow shortage out of greed)