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Rethinking Money, Reclaiming Freedom: Reframing Wealth as Objective Agency

2025-06-26

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Money is not a source of happiness—it is a structural expander of objective agency: the volume of viable actions available to an individual in a given system. This concept paper introduces a systems-theoretic model of money as a general-purpose constraint-removal mechanism. It formally distinguishes between objective and perceived agency, and proposes Agency-Adjusted Income (AAI) as a more accurate metric of real-...

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Literature Corpus work: 3058e3ee-77b2-5145-8d7e-be9cc7f68e42
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202506.2164.v1

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