“Although this is not its only function, if there is a relationship or aspect of our living being that money cannot intrude upon, co-opt, distort, parasitize, occlude, inhibit, prohibit, or simply obliterate… it can only be money’s capacities in this regard. Yet even these, I think, can be recursively affected by the promise or application cash, or perhaps as-yet-undifferentiated power, which is the root of money’s force.”

— an anonymous informant