Will to Power and Work

According to Nietzsche, the Will to Power seeks to discharge strength.  Hence, the accumulation of strength is a preliminary stage of Will to Power.  Thus, for example, as has been previously discussed, spending money is a discharge of strength, with respect to which the accumulation of it is a preliminary stage.  Hence, the treatment of wealth-accumulation as an end-in-itself, e. g. Wealth of Nations, is the product of an abstraction from a natural process.  Likewise, more generally, what is often conceived as an end-in-itself, the fulfilling of vital Need, e. g. eating, sleep, etc., is actually a process of re-vitalization, i. e. energy-accumulation, that is preliminary to the exercise of strength.  Thus, the common concept of sowing as a means to reaping is reversed according to the Will to Power.  Similarly, the priority of Leisure over Work abstracts processes of re-vitalization from their natural context, resulting in e. g. the unhealthful idleness of the wealthy.  So, the paradigm of the Fulfillment-Work relation, according to the Will to Power, is that of the regimen of the athlete, with respect to which the exploitative 'reproducing' of the worker that troubles Marx, i. e. the fulfillment of Need that minimally suffices for returning to work the next day, is a degenerate form.  Thus, while Socialism resolves the contradictions of Capitalism, Will to Power subverts it, by exposing its privileged states as passive, and devaluing them on that basis.