Politics exist because resources and property are scarce, and there are two ways to get things: by economic means and political means. The economic way involves the market and trade and persuasion. The political means, which is where politics comes in, involves force, via "government" edicts, as the means to acquire and allocate scarce resources and property. Many have found it more to their advantage to use the political means of force rather than the economic means of persuasion.
Discussion
The scarcity is artificially created by making currency (printed out of thin air) abundant, but only for certain groups, like bankers/corporations and regime supporters
Patents and copyrights, licensure and other laws that restrict the market also create artificial scarcity.
Those laws are enforced by the banks, corporations, regime, regime supporters
Because thatβs how they protect their system, that gives them their advantages/power/force
Iron price vs. gold price
The Iron Rule (politics) vs. the Golden Rule (market exchange)
π€― yes! I was thinking this:
https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_price
but now itβs next level
The political means: 
