Money (AKA the free market economy) is a way of allocating resources efficiency. The alternative - a command economy - is where some central agent decides how resources should be allocated.
By using money and buying and selling goods and services, we are already pooling our resources. The money thing is a way to decide what we should do with them, where decisions are made by people choosing to spend money on one thing rather than another.
Money (AKA the free market economy) is a way of allocating resources efficiency. The alternative - a command economy - is where some central agent decides how resources should be allocated.
Command hierachies are only one alternative to markets. Tribes and networks are two other forms.
Wikipedia for example creates a lot of value with being structured as a network.
How much money would it take to engineer biological immortality for at least half of the world's population, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?