Power is not innately bad. It’s how it’s used that can be problematic.

There’s a difference between power over, power for and power with.

Power with is the best option because it involves empowering others and sharing power; sometimes power for is necessary when it isn’t possible to empower the other and that power over is always a bad thing.

What also causes problems is the idea that there is only a finite and quite small amount of power available and that the only way for someone to get power is for someone else to give it up. This is by no means always true (although sometimes it can be, I guess).

(From a wise online friend)