Thank you, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's spent a possibly unhealthy amount of time lamenting how flimsy pieces of paper and numbers on a page, disguised as what we should all aspire to gain, are in reality meaningless figures and the cause of the vast majority of suffering for every person on the planet, directly or indirectly.
This part connected with me in particular - I think problems must have begun when we became almost too intelligent, or at least intelligent enough to lie and decieve each other. It's natural to want more, instinctive to take in order to survive, but as we grew in number as a species, some people's greed and manipulation must have called for some sort of solution.
So we created systems which everyone had to follow. Who actually had the authority to decide how we all live is a different matter, but eventually someone somewhere obviously come up with the concept of money. It must have seemed like a fantastic idea at the time, and seeing as it's still in use today in every single country's society it must have been a miracle solution back then.
But it just doesn't work anymore, and in a way it never did. The rules of every system always sway in favour of the people who have the luxury of a lot of money, who only get more, while those with nothing sink ever lower. Nowadays everyone knows the plight of unfair distribution of wealth, yet most of us turn a blind eye hoping someone else will resolve the problem - I'm guilty of this myself.
I honestly think there is a way to change our ways so everyone has an equal opportunity in life, and if that means burning every last dollar bill and scrapping every last pound coin then that's what we should be prepared to do. The problem is discovering the solution.
And even if we do devise an absolutely fair system, everyone will be frightened of what the differences will mean for them. Drastic change will breed uncertainty within us all, including in those who invented the idea in the first place. Whatever the case, it's almost certainly not going to be an issue resolved (or perhaps even acknowledged) in our lifetimes - we've forgotten that our family and friends are the most important things in life.
I hope that one day someone with a kind heart and a brilliant mind will bring us back to our senses.