Power is personally viewed and understood as having access to money, wealth and influence.
This fact might not necessarily be agreed with, especially by those who possess money, wealth and influence. We do not need rocket science to have this figured out; it is as clear and visible as daylight.
The more you have of it, the more superior you become.
Once you have money, wealth and influence, it becomes very easy for you to negotiate. Your terms and conditions outweigh others’ views, opinions, characters and beliefs.
Examples starting from our everyday experiences in society, politics, trade and even world affairs can be taken. That is why there is the well-known saying ‘money talks’.
Another one is ‘money makes the world go round’, but in my view, money makes those with money go around. It is so easy for the powerful to get in and out, all thanks to money, wealth and influence.
The money is there, the wealth is there, coupled with influence. So when, for instance, a powerful country like the United States wants to get into another sovereign country, they simply do that.
When multinational companies come in the name of investment, they mostly come and do business on their own terms. When political systems with control over countries’ resources have the means, they use the system to advance their agendas.
In society we see the ever-increasing gap between the haves and have-nots on a daily basis – a deeply divided society all thanks to inequality and different forms of corruption.
The power of the powerful is solid and it continues to rest with those who have money, wealth and influence.
From all over, citizens are complaining and raising serious societal and economic issues which the powerful seem to ignore and only pay attention to when they come to negotiate.
These negotiators who come with their own terms, conditions and promises are the political elites, the capitalist monopolists, the system-supported corrupt ones and even those bringing the gospel.
They handle power so well, so intelligently and sophisticatedly, that it is very difficult to see and understand their power.
– Alvenus Dreyer
