'That word' (below-hyperlinked to my profile on a great U.S. Currency-tracking site) is built on deeper foundations ...
The word “Wages” (like #Wage #Wager) is built on the same foundations as “a Pledge, Agreement, Covenant (usually, a Promise to |Meet in |Battle)” (Cf. Wed).
The word used in Scripture's famous "wages of sin" (the Greek ὀψώνιον (opsónion)) is also translated "one's |Pay, Salary, Reward" (tho there's a lot of Internet-Content about how 'salary' & 'wages' are slightly-different things).
A friend (with a degree in Economics) tells me that Money is essentially 'nothing'—yes, 'your time spent laboring "under your employer's whip"' is highly-valuable, and the money (which you're given in exchange for that time) is useful in paying for shelter & -in procuring food & clothing & entertainments; but there's nothing "backing it" anymore
(oh, there's 'your belief that others have traded-in their time for the relative amount of credit'; but no one can take their cash to the bank and trade it for x-amount of Gold or -Silver or -Latinum or -other rare metal ... or Can you?—not 'by Federal law' anymore, but there are places that'll bargain for it).
Since money isn't 'worth something that can possibly run out,' Legislators don't start their budget with "how much money do we have"—they start budget-talks with 'what equipment & materials & labor do we need?' and then they kinda guess-at 'how much money they'll spend on it.'
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