>money doesn't actually translate on its own into valuable things - people have to actually do work to make that possible.

This is highly unintuitive. I don't understand how Windows's Explorer (the file manager) has been for many years and is still to this day vastly inferior to Dolphin, a Linux file manager made for free by five Dutch guys or whatever. I can think of many other examples.

If anything, it seems like more money results in less quality, by way of some tragic sociological paradox. :p