Surplus [of production] isn’t bad per se. The question is what the surplus is used for/transformed into:
Is it transformed into
a) more energy, light, consciousness
or into
b) more power? – with power here meaning power over others & the environment, & appearing in the form of money in its most general sense: money as credit that ideology-society-state make to function as power-over by guaranteeing the holder of the credit a freedom [& practical ability] to do something that is in logical conflict with another agent’s freedoms (Deutsch: Befugnis)
– maybe relevant to marxist theory