If you want to no some people send them a message to go the market and get a quotation of materials, it doesn't matter the kind of material, what they would do is to get the price and add an amount to every product on the list and when you calculate all the money they have added you will be shocked, so actually money is like a justice of truth because you must learn something from someone if you have money transaction with them. However people should be treated differently when it comes to money because since I have known what people can do about money I usually use wisdom to follow them so that there wouldn't be conflict of money were somebody I will give the total amount to settle workers will use it for themselves. Actually money does not only rule the world but it also rules the mind of people but only the discipline ones try to be good no matter the influence it has on others.
Indeed money is very powerful, it is when you do something that involves money that you would actually know how human being are. Even though, you might be living with someone for a very long period of time you people just live free without any hatred. But once you people engage on anything money before you know it one would start having bad though against the other. That is while they always said that it is only money that can separate friends easily, because when it comes to money it is only few people that will never think of cheating each other.
Honestly, having money comes with lots of charisma and sometimes pride, give poor men $1m or more and watch some of them change totally from being humble to very mean and wicked, I saw the OP's statement saying that people now see money as valuable, right from the onset when money came into existence it's been very valuable and when a particular form of money loses it's value, people turn to other items, make it scarce thereby giving it value to be used as money.
Money has caused lots of the problems across the globe, people kill others for it, countries when raid and colonise others just to get their valuable resources and convert it to things that would generate money for their own country, there's a saying that money rules the world and that's why most elites have control over the middle and lower class people in their society.