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You can argue that a hierarchy built on mastery of mathematics is more useful than one built on big muscles or ability to juggle but they're fundamentally all arbitrary.

E.g. ability to make money is the current largest one. Because it's correlated w/ many other skills like leading people, managing people, accurate numbers, etc... it's the value hierarchy that's produce the largest stable system.

Maybe if there were *no* countries that's be better? Maybe countries of size 1000, 10,0000, 1M, 2M? Producing One Giant Peaceful System has never been done. Even our best authors can't seem to write a fiction book about Utopia.

Like, even pokemon is dystopian. Forcing your pets to fight other people's pets. The whole world is on a constant drip of ecstasy or something.

What a money system has historically been good at though... is War.

Our systems are geared for war. This defines our sense of seriousness. Without war, there is no seriousness and thus there is no energy to do anything.

Like steering a battleship, changing an energy source is difficult and takes a lot of energy. Crashing or bowing up the battleship doesn't help you change directions faster. "I've reduced the mass by 90%!! this will allow us to turn 10000x faster!"