True, but the OP also asks about the focus of society. Fundamentally, accumulating wealth provides 1. security for one's self and one's family 2. the opportunity to avail of items in limited supply e.g. education, travel. The only people who don't deal in money are the very rich and the destitute, the first because it's no longer important and the second because they have no opportunity to make any, what they need is dispensed by charity, the state etc. The rest of us use it to translate it into the goods and services we need or want. As these and almost all other sectors of society have monetary value built in, it's quite a re-think.
A society where accumulation of wealth is not the focus is a different thing to a society free of money, though. Would it be true to say that most of us do not pursue wealth to excess, but to the point where we have enough? Would that meet the OP's aim?