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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

Money is a mechanism for control.

Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Money: power at its most liquid.

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

Money is money.