Power is the correct framework to view reality:

Saving in fiat currency is surrendering power to the state.

Eating at McDonald’s is surrendering power by sacrificing your health.

Renouncing weightlifting is surrendering power to the obsolescence coded in your DNA.

Buying branded clothes and overpaying for them is surrendering power to brands.

Tax declaration is surrendering power.

So-called love is surrendering power.

Believing in virtue is surrendering power to those who invented them.

Not learning math is surrendering power to those willing to understand reality through abstraction and build systems on top of it.

Will to power is the mental model you need.