Money is undefined currency that holds and gives power!!
I think money can also give freedom and really make you able to do things you can't even imagine if you don't have enough money.
Money was a revolutionary technology that allowed people to trust in each other's promises and thus be able to divide the consumption of wealth across different times of your lifespan, and among different goods and services according to your wish.
The problem is that 'trust.' Since everyone trusts in the government's power to deliver on its promises, at least at the beginning, politicians have incentives to abuse that trust (and to ally with banks to multiply the abuse) to receive 'free' power and wealth, while the system is stable.
The problem is not money, per se. The problem is the government's involvement with money, in any way.