The goal of marketing is to make sales irrelevant -- Drucker
my extensions...
The goal of design is to make marketing irrelevant
The goal of tech is to make design irrelevant
The goal of finance is to make tech irrelevant
Couldn't it? Maybe swap in meditation or religion etc, but the point is the same — finance is a coordination tool, a crutch to lean on for as long as humans aren't reliably trustworthy and good-willed. But nothing prevents us living w/o finance, if we had the will to.