I agree with M2. Money is power. Not needing anybody's approval to live the way you choose to is power; you need money to do that.
I also agree with Uta though. It's dangerous to see wealth as the ONLY source of power. If you do them you end up like the people who opress us now - opressing others coz you want to keep the whole cake to yourself!
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Mediocrity is self inflicted and genius is self bestowed...Walter Russell
"Some patients mistakenly believe that their loneliness is a product of another person's absence"...a psychology book I don't know the name of