Good life is generally "having agency over your own social reproduction" and it's ultimately unrelated to the amount of money you make. It's a set of relationsh

Good life is generally "having agency over your own social reproduction" and it's ultimately unrelated to the amount of money you make. It's a set of relationships, since property itself is a relationship, who has the power to delegate, who is obligated, how transfer of responsibility happens, these are the important aspects That's why it's called a "political economy" the two are ultimately inseparable. It's a question of autonomy, control, agency and liberty, not one of dollars in a bank. This goes back over 100 years. Look at the Hollywood star system. Big names having essentially contracts of grueling work and enslavement for years under the Lochner era, they could make $1 million a movie but all the cash could be seized if they broke the 10 year contract or whatever and leave the person destitute. Stars who broke contracts and had everything taken away famously had to pawn off academy awards to try to feed themselves. The people didn't really have meaningful freedom. That's why United Artists, SAG, DGA, AFTRA and WGA started. If you work on a big show, it's the Guild that gives you dental and health care, not the studio. They give it to you in the dry times too. The money wasn't the problem, it was the enslavement. The politics and relationships is the actual thing, the money is just a temporary consequence