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Humans are a social animal - we live in colonies like ants or beavers. Like all social animals the approbation of our peers is necessary to our well-being almost as much as clean water or access to food. (A human living in total isolation would have a very poor quality of life - if he managed to survive at all).

So power - in the sense of approbation from others - is a primary need for humans.

In practice power also brings access to opportunities to reproduce (especially for males) and directly improves the quality of life (by conferring access to better food and living conditions).

In most societies the prime indicator of power is money: since money is really only the ability to make other people do what you want them to.

(The point is explained in detail in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe).

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