Money is the philosophy of a lot of people, so don't complain. But it is, in most of the cases I know personally, an empty philosophy. It is a philosophy of doing what others expect... which ends up being the result of a very long chain of a circular philosophy of doing what others expect: doing what is expected by other that do what is expected and so on.
Yet again... there is something to it.
I'll extend a definition I heard from Simon Sinek (in a video... of course ):
"Money is the quantified representation of a promise that someone will dedicate time and effort for you"
Get the idea? You have, for example, a piece of paper that proves someone made that promise to you. And as we all agree and believe in that promise as it is fulfilled every time (well, most times). The more other fulfill the promise, the more we can trust and the strong the value becomes.
For now, you may intuitively relate time and effort to work. Can you? We'll go deeper in the future.
But wait! You live in Sweden and can not conceive the promise broken? Well... I live in Argentina my friend... and it gets broken all the time... or sort of:
You see, in Argentina for decades now, the government (which sadly is a representation of all of us) spend more money it can earn. The weapon of choice to overcome this is printing bills, which means promising a lot... and under delivering. As time passes more bill are printed, but the same work gets done. More is promised, the same is achieved. That is called inflation.
So there is something to it: getting a lot of money, in theory means you get a lot done... in theory. Of course it means you get others to believe you get a lot done. That's great when it is true, not so great when is not.