@murdoc We shouldn't use that as an excuse to avoid taking steps in the right direction. First, we have to break society's addiction to profit. Then we can take further steps.

Honestly, I don't think money itself is the problem; it's just IOUs. It's how we think about wealth, earning, sharing, society benefit, personal worth, work, etc. People will always cheat and steal and hoard. They did that before money, and they will do it after money. But profit, as a concept, is a normalization of that process, treating it as legal, morally acceptable, or even virtuous. We have whole legal systems and societal conventions built up around that concept, making it easy for those with wealth to extract more, while acting as if they somehow benefit the rest of us. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was mutated from a simple observation that selfish and altruistic goals can be aligned sometimes by the market, into justification for the entrenchment of ongoing pillaging of the poor by the rich.