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I didn’t read it as anti-money, I read it as pro-nature, from an indigenous man who owes his entire existence to his people’s relationship with and stewardship of nature.
I don’t know much about his culture other than that. I do know that there are cultures that operate without formal currency. One example is a gift economy. These systems are argued to foster closer relationships and a stronger community than a monetary economy.
I don’t know how they could scale up to millions of people though, since they seem to depend heavily on personal relationships and reputation to punish cheating and free-riding. If you’re further arguing that we shouldn’t have societies of millions of people and instead we should live in villages with large extended families and kinship networks, well now you have my attention!
It's a Rorschach test showing us what we want.
I read it as Christian based anti-capitalist messaging that highlighted the Garden of Eden exists, it's Earth, and the people tearing down the world for greed are the snakes who will ruin this Garden forever.