Were humans made to mine gold?

I heard this theory somewhere (i think on JRE) and he said that humans were made to mine gold. That some ancient alien came to Earth and created us to mine gold for their own planet because gold is needed for the aliens. I actually found this very interesting. Why do we mine gold? Gold really has no value to us besides the fact that it can be used as a good conductor. We can't use it for armor or anything that iron can be used for, so why do we go to such great lengths to mine it, even risk our lives for it. Also, Scientists have discovered mining operations going back as far as 100,000 BC in Africa, South and Central America.

I don't believe the alien part of this but it is extremely weird that we risk our lives to mine "gold" when it has no value.
(Correct me if i'm wrong)