You are able to read this with eye light organs because of real biology, not some abstract model of light refraction. Everyone exists (or dies) because of biology, not abstractions. Would you rather have the idea of clean water, or clean water? Would you rather breathe real air, or think of the IDEA of air as you suffocate?
So do we.
Primary, real things like duty, labour, sacrifice, achievement often clash with abstract representations of reality, like currency, because abstractions lend themselves to manipulation and are the domain of those who seek to dominate instead of producing or being of service.
Money is an abstraction that is necessary between the prehistoric age and the coming new age. It opens up society to such an extreme amount of overpowering manipulation that it is in the top ten lubricants of evil. Every bribe by dark forces of journalists, crime investigators, politicians, bureaucrats, etc. is possible by money. Every enslaving system of artificial inflation, boom-bust cycles, bankrupting of individuals, families and whole nations is possible by the manipulation of this non-thing. It is not a REAL thing, therefor it enables evil. But do not fret, it will go away just as it came: naturally. When the new order comes, abstract currency will be irrelevant, because EVERYONE WILL BE ABLE TO TRUST ONE ANOTHER.
The evil of money is just a secondary thing, used to shackle humans of high value, to hijack nations, to throw peoples into destitution. But this is all good, because we are here to learn. And learn we will, through struggle, about the nobility of serving others through real production and service, versus the tyranny of Ideals imposed by hyppocrites. We must go through this phase, this in-between time, to reach the next phase.
We must learn why real trust is such a worthy thing, such a beautiful thing, such a NECESSARY thing. The lack of trust does not indicate a bad ENVIRONMENT, but bad "human" raw material. Nothing will ever improve before we learn that lesson. Those who do not learn will keep going on in the predatory cycle that so many pretend not to see, because they do not want to acknowledge the underlying currents, because these underlying currents of reality destroy their childish Ideals of equality, harmony and stability (stagnation).
We either go forward and upward, of we cycle down into collapse. No middle ground. No compromises.
Idealist: but if the Idealist system is all that corrupt, than why doesn't anyone change it or set up a better system, Mr smart realist?!
Realist: because a vast amount of people react like you do, with mind-stop and personal attacks, persecuting anyone who wants to improve it or set up another, independent, system.
