Not sure how you can equate using money to beat down others (exploit them, leveraging wealth against their relatively weaker position to maximize profits) with

Not sure how you can equate using money to beat down others (exploit them, leveraging wealth against their relatively weaker position to maximize profits) with things like funding single payer health care. There is no contradiction there. The logic is actually quite consistent. Spending money to help people is not the same as spending money to hurt them.