Alignment vs Leverage
In social terms, power is how you get what you want from others and how others can get what they want from you. Unless you've tried to get something from someone, or resist others trying to take something from you, you lack the direct confrontation necessary to really understand power.
When you want to be favored over someone else you you are forced to assess your own leverage. .Leverage could be anything: from gender, to age, to how wealthy you are, to your history of loyalty etc.
But despite the variety of forms power can take, in concrete form it translates into money 💰. This is a form no person living in civilized society can ignore.
If you live long enough you will confront it too. And when it does, alignments can only compensate at best.