What's not to love about money?

Abstract

Many are convinced that "money is power" or "money is freedom," but money itself is just a thing and cannot have any power. Power can only be "exercised" through money in a system where there are means of "making" and reliably storing this money, and where people themselves subject themselves to money, not to the law. Money and power are the result of a long-term relationship between people, and not vice versa.