All about the money

I find it pretty strange how mankind functions. We always want something in return for another thing. We were talking today in a group about who was the first smart one to convince another smart one to take the pretty shiny piece of gold instead of bartering some real goods. What is money? You can't eat it. You can't wear it. It won't protect you against ill. It's nothing really, and yet it governs our lives. It controls us. What does it all boil down to in the end? In the end we are doing exactly what all the other creatures are doing. Surviving. The human species just has this tendency to over-do and over-complicate everything so vastly when actually that was not God's intention. We create so many problems for ourselves and cause ourselves so much unnecessary stress and pain and we forget to live. We all going the same way one day, so why do humans always have to over complicate their existence when really in relation to the rest of the universe and infinite time, we are a split-second, a microscopic entity in contrast.
And then you get people that think that they know everything.