I agree with you to a certain extent, also I didn't mean to disregard the value that money provides by giving us a way to assign a quantifiable value to things.

I agree with you to a certain extent, also I didn't mean to disregard the value that money provides by giving us a way to assign a quantifiable value to things. That's entirely different and in that way it can be counted as one of the greatest innovations in human history. I was talking about the human greed that is exploited by money. Also, if you're going to fight a war with another country, money doesn't mean much does it? Unless you have a global currency that both sides can agree on. Ultimately wars were fought for resources (Non ideological ones). Money is just paper/coins which you can print anytime you want if you control the resources.