Modern society is based on an artificial, closed  system where huge, abstract organisations (called corporations, religions or countries) use sophisticated tools and big machines (called Industry) to control the masses and fully exploit natural resources (called assets) and human resources (called personell or work) to obtain as much as possible of a means that has turned into a goal (called money), because that grants certain advantages and options (called power) to those few who somehow have achieved the situation where they can enjoy those advantages and options, within that same closed system. And it's all manipulated!