I agree with you, but frame it slightly differently. Money is fine, even pretty useful. I'm a programmer, and my skill is programming. If I want to eat, I need

I agree with you, but frame it slightly differently. Money is fine, even pretty useful. I'm a programmer, and my skill is programming. If I want to eat, I need to find a farmer that needs some programming done so I can trade my skills for his food. If the farmer needs some lumber to fix his fence, he needs to find a lumbermill that needs grain, so he can trade. Instead, with money, we have an intermediate thing we can trade our labor for, and then use it to obtain the other things we need. Instead, I would suggest what you hate is Capitalism, which is different from money. A "market" is a concept that allows everyone to trade their products and services with each other. A Free Market is an academic ideal, that allows every actor in the market to participate with perfect information and without coercion. Capitalism exploits the fact that there's no such thing as a free market, and perverts the market in favor those actors with lots of money and power to exploit and subjugate those who don't. We could tax the wealthy enough that everyone could be given enough money to live on, and do whatever they wanted. Be an artist or a musician, or a programmer. They could work for themselves, or band together with others to produce things and sell them for a profit, and be better off than the minimum. But if they end up working for someone who tries to exploit, subjugate or harm them, then they can just leave without risk, since they'll always have enough money for housing, food and healthcare. But of course, the billionaires would hate this, since it removes the source of their power. They're willing to spend billions of dollars corrupting politicians, generating propaganda, and convincing the rest of us that being exploited is what's best. We as a society could decide fix this, but we have to figure out how to organize with each other, and overcome the billions of dollars spent to prevent it.