It is no exaggeration that, whatever we might say about the nature of its influence over our lives, the global economy is by far the most universal, powerful and interwoven system of power on the planet. People everywhere live and die by their pocketbooks. Local modes of oppression and exploitation, from racism to sexism to ablism to homophobia, tend to express themselves most universally in the form of economic privilege or privation and the division of labour.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 337