[imtringued]

That's obviously a foolish interpretation of money. The economy is a system that lets people trade their time for other people's time. Without an economy you would have to do everything yourself. However, an ideal economy doesn't give more back than you put in. Therefore what the economy offers is the ability to specialize. You get to decide how much work you want to do yourself and how much work you let others do.

From this perspective, the accumulation of money is merely the interruption of this specialization process. The idea of ascribing value to an interruption of a system that is otherwise trying to be balanced gives the impression that somebody is too lazy to figure out what they really want out of their life and they simply enjoy having the option even if it means that the other side is waiting for you to act.

It gets especially perverse during recessions where everyone is trying to acquire money for the sake of safety and security when all it really means is that you order people to stop working for the very reason that motivated you to save money, the fear of unemployment.