My Economic Theory of Relativity

Einstein's Theory of Relativity says gravity is a property of space, not objects. I have been told that if gravity were a property of objects instead of space, everything would clump together like magnets in a kitchen junk drawer instead of creating functional solar systems.

It's possible that the very existence of money has helped create a situation where prosperity is seen as a property of individuals rather than a product of a functional society and has encouraged the existence of a poverty-stricken, poverty mentality world where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Historically, political leaders were stewards of the economic welfare of a country and now they seem to increasingly use their office to harm the masses and the health of the economy to concentrate more wealth in the hands of the people at the top at the expense of everyone, themselves included.

This September 25, 2023 article is titled 

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power. 

How Amazon Exploits and Undermines Small Businesses, and Why Breaking It Up Would Revive American Entrepreneurship by the Institute for Local Self Reliance is dated Jun 16, 2021.

Amazon is an example of this magnets clumped together in a junk drawer concept. The recent trend where corporations bought up single family homes, cutting out would be individual homeowners and contributing to rising homelessness is another.

A healthy society creates widespread, general prosperity and opportunity for everyone to thrive. When you don't do that, even the very wealthy live in fear of the potential for society to come apart at the seams, as evinced by the prominent trend that was in the news for a time of wealthy individuals buying compounds in New Zealand and jets to use as their prestocked bug out bag if the shit hit the fan. (That's an actual prepper term and not my usual potty mouth.)

Money does have inherent value in terms of fostering commerce and reducing friction in trade. But it's trade value or dollar value is dependent on it being widely accepted as having X value. The US long ago stopped tying the dollar to gold.

This has created a lot of knock on effects. One of those seems to be that money is gamable and is being used to disempower the people in ways that are inherently problematic for everyone.