It only has value because we feel it does.
You mean because we all agree it does.
Your experience with money must be very different from mine. I suppose even love could be viewed as evil, since it sometimes inspires foul deeds. I can see that useful things can be used for wrong purposes, but to dwell on that is limiting.
I'm a video/computer gamer. I belong to the lower Middle-class. That should tell you what my experience with money is.
If not, you should learn about the Atari 2600 adaptation of E.T, and remember that it still cost $60 when it came out. That is the microcosm of everything wrong with the industry. Once you learn about it, or if you already know about it, just know that even today many companies seem to have forgotten about it, and continue to make that same mistake again and again every month, even though it's one of the primary reasons why a company or developer may go under.
Tis no fairy tale. Money is used daily by billions of people to accomplish everything from procuring food to observing the stars.
And I prefer to focus on the food and the stars, not the object by which they are obtained. "...like a finger, pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory." -Bruce Lee.
What you described was an economy where everybody trusted everybody with their money, everybody trusted that the prices they were paying were fair and just, and allows people to live happily, and without which would be misery. But I don't have much money at all, but I certainly wouldn't describe my life as miserable. Not to mention, I'm in college. Therefore, every semester I'm robbed by the textbook companies, who far overcharge for their books. (Luckily, many teachers are no longer using those books, but writing their own.)
Not to mention your post was full of fluff and beautiful words, to the point where it was nigh unintelligible.
What a miserable existence that sounds like! To work grudgingly is a low existence indeed. Money is not the culprit, but rather their choices in life. A change in their world view is needed.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the worldview of most American workers. It seems like a stereotype to hate our jobs and to hate work, and that we wouldn't work except for the fact that we need to in order to put dinner on our tables.
I don't think money itself is the culprit, but greed for it is. I neither hate money, nor do I love it: I'm apathetic about it.