1. Power is fundamentally the ability to alter one's CONSCIOUS experiences.
2. Most of us learn to modify our conscious experiences, via manipulation of objects beyond our bodies. The power to do things, to get things done, PHYSICALLY.
3. POLITICAL power is the manipulation of people as physical objects. The power to get people, to do things, to get things done, concretely.
4. Money is simply a conventional token, a.k.a. currency, which abstracts over goods and services, which are reified physical objects, via a (literally) metaphysical construct, a synthetic physics, which we call the financial system.
So money is best understood, as a unit of political power, in a synthetic physical system. And political power is simply a variety of concrete physics in general.
5. Finally it must be noted, it is also possible to alter one's conscious experience, via direct physical manipulation of one's cognitive apparatus, without manipulation of physical systems broadly external to it. Some people call this a sort of self-control, it involves imagination, and broadly it is employed in activities associated with the word "meditation".
So that is, in a nutshell, an ontology of human experience, across all academic disciplines.
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