[southerntofu]

> Money has become a high score and its increasingly exclusive nature made it a status symbol.

Exactly. It's a mathematical abstraction for social status and privilege, not a tool that addresses human needs.

> not having children. Who's going to work for them when they are old?

This framing of the "aging" issue is based on our capitalist economies with the family as a foundational unit of society. In a cooperative economy, no one should have to worry about how to feed themselves when they grow old.