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No matter what, there will always be some form of currency. Salt was considered a form of payment, if you look back in history. If there was no money, something else would take its place. Otherwise, how would you strive to make a living? Would you build your own home? Purify your own water? Manage your own sewage? Dispose of your own garbage? Generate your own electricity? Make your own clothes and tools? Raise and grow your own food? I think it's pretty clear. Money isn't the root of all evil. Perhaps greed.

If there were no money, I believe something would arise to take its place. People have a need to place a value on things. And for the exchange of goods and services, a system is needed to denote that valuation so that we know if trading a horse for 3 bushels of corn is fair or not. To the people involved in that transaction, the horse and corn become the money to the person that owns them, and the good or service being bought to the person seeking them. Those who hold or control something that is needed by others, like food, become powerful. Greed and violence can still be a factor. Interestingly, the TV show "Jericho" shows this to be very true. Do a search - CBS has a website where you can watch all the back episodes. Fascinating study of human nature, really, while being an enjoyable drama. In it, money is worthless, but greed and violence still run rampant.

It's impossible that money will vanish totally as it is the only way for human being to trade their goods. If money vanished, something similar would replace it. Once human exsists, money would not vanish at all, I'm sure.

money is just a medium for exchange. so it is not the fault of money, just our own. though money can serve as medium tomake our exchange more convenient, it can also be stored to buy goods in the future, which is just the source of money worship.