Extensive power lies in the ability to convince people to concentrate their efforts, provide some goods or services for specific benefactors (from whom the cost is displaced disproportionately), so it would seem. (pretty obvious)

One way or another I think the most successful people know money is just one tool of many available to accomplish this task. And while this or that moral high ground is being debated, others press on with their work. Might is right: absolutely a force to be reckoned with.