And then the math geniuses that could be the next Einstein are slaving away in cubicles writing algorithms for the stock market. So much potential lost in the pursuit of increasing someone else's wallet.
Money is your score at the game of life.
Maybe the answer is to stop treating life as a game..
That being said, I cannot really think of a better system than money at our current scale.
In the saddest and emptiest of lives, sure.
Living only to increase the number on your bank balance seems like a terrible waste of life to me.
Not always, even when it does, it's only up to a point.