This post is similar to another post and i want to quote myself:
"You want good health? you need money for membership in the gym , buy a bike, get running shoes, eat healthy food. You want to sleep early at night? you need to have sufficient money to stop grinding or working overtime. It is really difficult to get what you want without money."
and hence, yes. I agree with what you said that money makes the world go round and it is not just a want but a need in order to survive this capitalistic world.
that does seem to be the case but if you think about it again, when back then where money still doesn't exist, people hoarding all kinds of stuff, the kingdom hoarding golds to pay their expenses, the other hoarding food so that they can exchange it to gold, its actually the same, its just that since money exist, which happen to be a tool of exchange, then all the attention shifted into it.
its basically the same thing that we have been doing since thousand years ago its just with different tools so I see no problem here.
but yeah, nowaday can't live comfortably without sufficient money everything requires money, the people that can earn a lot will be the winner and have high status.
thats why its advisable to just try to find a way to make wealth even though its overall not an easy ones, but what other choice we have.