The belief that money is evil can cost people opportunities. Dog only knows how much opportunity it's cost me. Even setting aside opportunities to earn money (which of course can't be set aside entirely), you also won't get the opportunities to work as part of a team, to be challenged by projects larger than hobby scale, to be a contributor, etc., if you don't demonstrate willingness to be money motivated. At least I never found such an end run.

Likewise with politics. Moderates love to point out that victory is a prerequisite for policymaking. Money happens to be a prerequisite for winning. Everyone wants money out of politics, but nobody's in a hurry to run a zero budget campaign. That would be unilateral disarmament.

For what it's worth, I'd rather live in a constrained monarchy (such as Sweden) than an unconstrained oligarchy (such as Russia).

My main complaint with "no kings" as our most prominent slogan is that I'd prefer something more directly insulting to the political right.