Economy & Finance · 21. December 2025

Digitalization is usually framed as efficiency and progress. But I argue that digital systems now fulfill the same structural role temples once did: protecting wealth through abstraction, legitimacy, and collective belief. Tracing the shift from sacred objects to symbolic ownership and finally to system-based access, the article explores how value, power, and security have migrated beyond possession toward invisibility, indispensability, and systemic relevance.