Money enables norm evasion by keeping institutions invested in silence.

Evidence

The lesson was clear: Systems of power and profit could shield predators. As long as revenue kept flowing, institutions were content to look the other way. Money served as the ultimate tool for norm evasion—and for many, that was the core appeal of getting rich. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 588

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s ‘On Sacrifice’ article themes about how power stabilizes stratified systems — here money is the stabilizer that keeps predation unpunished.

Related

• Revenue streams let institutions rationalize shielding predators from accountability. (similarity 0.88)
• Destroying social norms left only money as a value and empowered outrage hackers (similarity 0.80)