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I argue that you are wrong about money. Sure, in principle money is just a tool for mediating value, for setting up prices, which is after all how the market operates, blah blah blah, modern economic theory...
But money also encourages one little thing, which is, I believe, at the heart of why money is so harmful: hoarding. Money encourages hoarding, not only encourages, but actually makes it a necessity. For one thing there is inflation, for another the fear that tomorrow all your wealth may disappear (ironically, that hoarded money itself runs the greater risk of disappearing), so you need to hoard as much as possible, and the best way to hoard it, is by the use of money. There is also the fact that wealth is worth nothing anymore, only money. Real wealth has been reduced to it's ability to produce money, not the other way around.
So yeah, money is the problem.
That sounds reasonable and consistent.
But I can't agree given I know neither I nor many others I've known hoarded money despite using money.
What you're saying seems akin to blaming alcohol for alcoholism.