Money? A proxy for power. Neither start nor end of power, money is credential, license, writ—by which power may be exercised.
Is colonialist misdirection to mistake the paper for the work.
However much work of power may be exercised through—excised by—enumerations, ain't such exchange tally that controls; rather strokes by which we lash our futures—in swap for vouchers, promises, tickets—to a bureaucrat's map, indelibly distinct from where we must go.
You are here. Where map stands⋯ as proxy.