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that wall street is (stereotypically) full of "greedy traders" is a feature, not a bug. If the people running a system that requires money to be important don't care about money, then that system collapses.

It's like holding a nerf gun to someone's head: "You'd better make smart decisions or else I'll shoot this foam dart at you!"

The more you care about money, the more effective you are within a society that controls via money. You're more sensitive to the environmental signals. There's strong correlation to greedy behavior and greedy individuals but also correlation with 'higher-level' macro experts.

Because of money's proximity to the Threat of Violence mechanism, it feels 'dirtier' than other mechanisms of control. We killed god, so the opposite of coordination via money is coordination via ideals. E.g. politics and say the BLM movement.

To understand money you have to understand the mechanism of violence and its critical role in the universe. (Cats as obligatory carnivores are a living representation of the necessary pain and suffering involved in life.)

When given a choice between enforcing certain conventions via money or guns, money is less violent. History is shit show of the downsides of violence as an enforcement mechanism.

There is a strong argument though that money is less indirectly violent but overall still produces the same amount of violence. E.g. I suspect a viking warrior would rather die and enter valhalla than drown in debt and homelessness, having no idea why he is abandoned by society.

What i think happens is that the violence is amortized into the future instead of hitting you all at once. The violence is spread out over time. Instead of a sharp intense temporary pain, it's a chronic ache. A chronic ache that spills into every one of your interactions...