I have no rebuttal for this. However that's not enough to say that people are worshiping money just coz they spend a lot their waking hours trying to earn it. Money most of all is simply "value". I don't think it dissimilar to early humans and their subsistence farming. You just do what you gotta do to survive. For them it's growing their own food, for us it's earning money so we can buy our food.

We accumulate wealth because we have the ability to plan for the future and that future requires resources if we and our descendants are to stay alive to see it. I would even dare say this is what sets us apart from animals.