> did they merely figure out a clever way to reallocate wealth from other people? Although it seems that money was indeed created to help distribute the fruits

> did they merely figure out a clever way to reallocate wealth from other people? Although it seems that money was indeed created to help distribute the fruits of work (a noble cause), one of the problems, as you have pointed out here, is that the system can be hacked. The monetary system takes real-world resources (including human labour, health, and dignity) and plays them like a board game. Even worse, the rules of the game are barely known and inconsistently enforced.