Agreed. Money is not the problem. The worship of money is the problem. The treatment of people as mere acquisitions is the problem.
Yes. An economically free society will show its sin in what they consume and in what they choose. An economically controlled society will show its sin a little differently, but their absence of freedom in no way breaks their slavery to sin. It will just display itself in different ways. But, forced behavior modification does not save, either, any more than those forced muslim conversions are genuine. I would not take that to the extreme that libertarians take it. I think government should be a structure for good in society. it is just that it must be limited BECAUSE of the corruption sin has wrought on every human heart. The restrains need to come primarily from within. The cancer and corruption in our churches is more a source of the problem than wealth and consumerism.