There's really not much of a dichotomy between power and money at the level we're discussing (the level where power is mostly influence). Money is liquid, token

There's really not much of a dichotomy between power and money at the level we're discussing (the level where power is mostly influence). Money is liquid, tokenized power. If you have enough of money, you can get virtually anything you want. That sounds like the same thing as power to me. There is a cruder form of power, which is physical might, but that usually doesn't come into play in jurisdictions with functioning legal and military systems.