A Money Spear society will have better weapons and also make far better macro-scale decisions.
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Countries who worship Money are granted great demon-like powers. But Money as God has some weaknesses:
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Money has gravity and over time it loses it's ability to actually "grow" in a lively sense. It's just like a black hole sucking up everything it touches. Over time it's no longer possible to use "can make money grow" as a useful measure of ability.
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(Reading and writing similarly are no longer valued skills when they would make you valued scribes in ancient times.)
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It's still quite valuable now. Many CEOs are not just trust fund babies having some fun. Many *are* very good people to have in positions of leadership. They understand the fractal scaffolding needed despite the heated societal arguments around the money as infrastructure problem
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It is getting less so though I think. E.g. I've rarely felt that my managers in my career have actually provided me any leadership.
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Still though, a skeleton of money managers is the best society scaffolding we've come up with so far. I'm quite dubious of the "programmers" as best societal scaffolding.
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The theory is that because each programmer can have leverage over thousands/millions of machines the structure is very lightweight and very strong.
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However this feels like a cyborgy sterile kind of world because it doesn't use actual Humans as the brick and mortar of Human Society. It's the Impossible Meat version of human society.
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Yeah it does have some merit, especially is you add in moral arguments, but it's also kinda weird and untested. Yes yes, factory farming and coal are bad but immediately replace ALL school cafe food with Impossible Meat and Soylent starting tomorrow? r u super sure???
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Plus add in the fact that programmers don't tend to be highly representative of the average human. They might do something crazy like make the world into a giant MMORPG. You'd have to like..follow the direction on ur phone to grind for resources or something stupid like that.
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Money comes in to save the day again (sorta) because such a society does not let Linus Torvalds make huge sweeping decisions that affect entire nations and human communities. Instead decisions go to people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
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Amazon Prime? Pretty cool. Electric Cars? Pretty cool. "Should these guys continue making decisions for the world?" "Yeah I guess. seems ok to me I don't have a better idea."
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Back to the original invisible mountain thing. So while each small individual human ecosystem can be based on its own value hierarchy they often don't scale. The money-manager value hierarchy(aka Capitalism) is the one that scales best so far based on history.
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The thing they're trying in China is really weird. It's just Capitalism 2.0 but they're calling it Communism 3.0 and yet is also being derided as Authoritarianism 1.0.
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