It's complicated. The relationship people have with money is subjective and related to your personal background (culture, social class, country, etc). Also, societal norms define this a little further - while its clear most countries connect money and power, societal behaviours towards those topics can differ tremendously, at least in theory. Typical example: a country like France had a revolution to ensure all citizens are equal regardless of their social status or any types of differences (race, social class, etc), a country like Germany also had its share of influence in history that brought them on a more social side, while a country like the United States is very heavily influenced by money-related theories (such as hard core capitalism) thus money is culturally a more dominant topic. What it means in practice will depend on who you ask, everyone thinks they are more poor than they actually are and not as rich as they want to be, many will say Germany is not social enough and France is losing its identity, but in the grand scheme of things when you compare countries and the way each of them is changing you can really see the relationship money-power is much stronger in some countries than others. The more there's a social gap, the stronger it will be