You say that free energy will not remove the need for People, and You are fully correct. The question is... If the button not pushed is creating a problem for You, would You push it? And if it is Your bliss to create the needed things, would You do it for merely the reputation, thanks, respect, and other social currency if You could live as richly as You choose? If it's no One's bliss and a robot can't create these things - if it's a problem and You could solve for it (earning praise, lauds, fame even for being the hero), would You do it?

If You love to farm, with robots to help, producing more than You can eat, would You not add the excess to a community cornucopia, taking from what is given by Others of what You want or need? And robots can do all the farming if there is no One who WANTS to do it.

Barter is a form of money, a foundational form. It still accounts for Your energy added. With free energy, barter and trade are unnecessary too.

So yes, free energy can indeed remove the need for money (100% of the cost of everything is energy).

And You are so very wrong about psychopaths and being in power. Let Us suppose You shared, with fewer than 100 Others, 70% of the planet's wealth. You are able to buy anything and anyOne You want to. Because You are a psychopath (as well as the Others on Your level), You do not choose to free Humanity to the abundance of this planet, but instead, want to control every One. You buy the corporations Most would call "Our governments." (Yes, they all are incorporated...) You buy the media. You buy medicine, education, legal entities, technology, militaries, food production, water treatment, ad infinitum. You buy the Ones You place in Your corporations as officers and CEO's (presidents). You write scripts for Your "news" corporations to put out to manipulate the perceptions of the Humans on Our planet. You use propaganda and lies to incite wars...

If You haven't picked up yet that I describe exactly what is going on now... Well. Anyway, lies will only be exposed if it's in the script for the lies to be "outed." If someOne catches a lie, Your media won't touch it. Your apparatus rolls right over it. Meanwhile You do things that justify stripping freedoms - psychological operations, be they false flags or hoaxes.

Needless to say... there is no way to "psychopath-proof" the offices of Your controlmind (government) corporation. You will never allow any moves to succeed.

We Humans are not warlike, but can be incited to war with the right lies and propaganda. It is the psychopaths in control that love Their willing (soul-diers) and unwilling ("collateral damage") sacrifices to Their sick egos. The psychopaths in control withhold free energy because it threatens Their power structure.

We have been indoctrinated from birth, propagandized and lied to, blamed (as "Humanity") for the things the psychopaths do, manipulated and played, and to top that off, Our medicines, land, food, water, air, and electromagnetic environment deliberately besmirched. By psychopaths. Psychopaths who are in control on Our planet.

I suggest You are looking at only a small piece of the picture, thinking that You need some Other to be Your "authority" (because You have been indoctrinated to think so), thinking that You elect anyOne, thinking that all We have to do is get rid of psychopaths in "Our government" and the problem will be solved. I suggest You are missing a huge section of the whole.