"Money, that's what I want"

 I was on twitter recently, and I saw a new account called "Wealthy Walrus." It was tweeting things like "For $2 million dollars, would you shave off your eyebrows?" This got me thinking how I really need a job, so my parents will stop yelling at me about responsibilities and what not, but also so I can have money to buy things that I want. Then it got me thinking about how materialistic society has become, and how all anyone cares about is money, and the things they can buy with it. People are willing to work themselves to the bone, during ridiculous hours, just so they can have the newest and most stylish thing. In reality, most people don't even notice other people's new and nice things, because they are so busy trying to work themselves to the bone to get the new thing for themselves. This makes no sense to me though, although I am a victim of it as well; why are people willing to steal, harm, and go to insane extremes just to get little pieces of paper with numbers on them. There is too high of a value placed on this paper, thinking it is necessary for life. Unfortunately, due to today's morphed ideas, this piece of paper now is required to do anything. What people don't think of is the fact that the earliest humans lived without it. They didn't care if they smelled or had old clothes on, they were worried about getting the necessities. The rest of the entire animal kingdom is completely okay without the use of money. Even if the animals started to use currency, we would look at them like they were crazy if they walked into a store, grabbed a Coke, and went to the cash register to pay. It wouldn't make any sense if they did, so why do humans care so much about money? Why did humans so deeply engrain the idea of money into society that we can't function without it? Made it so god-like, people are willing to steal, lie, and even kill for it?