sell your soul for cold hard cash

Yeah it seems like, this is some entirely naive view of the world, people tend to forget that they are free to go into the woods and forage food etc, but then they wouldn't have their phones and pcs to post absolute nonsense on the internet.

Like what does op think people did before "salary" they worked from dawn till dusk on a patch of land trying not to die, before that they foraged and hunted, surviving day to day

Thats not completely true, usually they pay people less then what they need to survive so people are desperate enough to do overtime and overnight shifts.

Well you don't need money at all to survive, you can just go into the woods and forage and survive that way, but it turns out it's a lot of work, dangerous and not very effective, so people prefer living in a comfy place, and have comfy stuff and have readily available access to food and other services, but someone has to make that happen it's not free and you doing adhoc tasks in exchange as in barter is just not effective and thus we have an introduced and intermediary thing called money, where you exchange your time for money and then you can exchange your money for goods and services.

Now how we do this, aka capitalism is largely terrible as it rewards already having or accumulating capital ( as the name suggests) but that doesn't mean that money as it is, is somewhat terrible.

Yes. But which one?

Also there is an option C/D if you're willing to make sacrifices or crush other people.