Money lets people do things their individual powers cannot

Evidence

Money is the alienated ability of mankind. That which I am unable to do as a man, and of which therefore all my individual essential powers are incapable, I am able to do by means of money. Money thus turns each of these powers into something which in itself it is not – turns it, that is, into its contrary. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 94

Categorization

• DEFINE: Quoted Marx on money as alienated human power - the conceptual anchor for understanding capital and later platform rent extraction.
• XREF: connects to: Money is transferable freedom deferring choices of when, with whom, and for what.; Ownership of wealth is real only when one can part with it freely — , A Year of World Stories, 12081; Trust in money is system trust in a function, not in people. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 212 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Money is transferable freedom deferring choices of when, with whom, and for what. #expands (0.82)
• Ownership of wealth is real only when one can part with it freely #exemplifies (0.78) — , A Year of World Stories, 12081
• Trust in money is system trust in a function, not in people. #expands (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 212
• Freedom requires material independence from another’s arbitrary will #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 173