Money=abstraction of desires. It lets attain our needs and wants in a portable, flexible way. Some form of currency has always existed. Do away with needs and wants, and money can go away. Until then...

Thus the famous Bible verse about "the love of money" being the root of all evil. It's our desire that's evil; Money's just the means. It's hunger that makes us destroy another life so we can survive and thrive. Life itself is the evil. That our strongest urges are to stay alive and perpetuate life means that life is also a trap.

Some say the world has much beauty, but it's one thing to behold a thing, and something entirely different to be that thing as any person who's been blessed with physical beauty will tell you.

Compassion via empathy, our one saving grace as a species, comes most readily to those who regularly deny their desires. That's why zealots are so annoying. We feel their desire to "help" just as much as we would their desire to harm or take advantage. Besides that, do-gooders make the mistake of thinking that the world can be repaired.

No living thing acts without stimulus or motives. If aliens come here in a ship, they're acting on some motive. The aliens I've met have all had some type of currency.

Don't get me wrong. I think the money system stinks too.