and why they even need to have money in the first place.

I had this experience living with a Turkish family to experience traditional family life: the mum knows how to do everything-cooking, knitting, cleaning, and different family members seemingly have their skills, so cool, so they don't need much things from outside; Spending relatively less yet having such good quality of life and many time spending together; And when you go back to big cities, people mostly buying this, buying that, eating junk, wearing plastics, working so hard and so little time being able to well spent, basically a rat race on earning more and consuming more, wild.