Shortsightedness driven by greed does not, in any way, negate money equaling power.
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frezik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago“Wealth and power are exactly the same”. This is the claim I’m disputing. If there are places where money and power are in conflict, then they can’t be the same. Your analysis of a situation will be have holes in it if this is not considered.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
frezik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Then let me attack it from a different direction: can you have power in a society that does not have money?
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Within that isolated society? Sure.
If your goal was to argue semantics then I don’t know why I’m entertaining this. Yes, in an imaginary society that is 1) somehow not influenced by modern society and 2) somehow also avoids currency - power dynamics will obviously take different shapes.
Do you realize how meaningless that example is?
frezik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I’m working outword to find a path in.
If a society can have power without money, then can the two overlap perfectly in any society?
To use a more concrete example, how do unions ever have power in our society? They tend not to have money, or at least very little in proportion to the business owners.
Veraxus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you’d care to dive deeper I’d like to be challenged on this; but your previous example of “maintaining things can avoid unnecessary costs later” (as I understand it) doesn’t have anything to do with “money and power can be in conflict”.