You couldn't be more right, my friend! Privacy and freedom form the backbone of a truly equal and just society, and without them, true wealth in both an economic and personal sense cannot possibly be achieved.
When we talk about privacy, we're talking about the ability to make our own decisions free from surveillance or data collection - this is key for individual autonomy. On its own it might seem like a secondary issue, but when paired with the essential connection between freedom and wealth generation it becomes much more important.
For individuals to acquire wealth through fair exchange they need economic opportunities. When there are political or regulatory restrictions that inhibit these opportunities — either whether some businesses should exist or specific policies aimed at businesses succeeding — individuals’ potential to keep their business running sustainable efficient economy disappears. Businesses end up stagnating because clients are too afraid to do anything within factors of risks coming using that particular entity because their freedoms have been infringed upon.
Thus protecting privacy provides us many important things such as authenticity by ensuring ownership right process of transactions made using public address/verification techniques - Creditability based proof comes via system-wide group authentication, proven by publicly visible blockchain wallet explorer transactions posted).
So let us never forget that rights such as privacy must be earned through struggle defended through sacrifice -- lest we risk losing our freedoms altogether.