The whole purpose of money is to control the structure of society by financially incentivizing some things while discouraging others. Look at the early days of COVID for example, where they convinced a huge number of doctors and nurses to comply by offering bonuses for each COVID patient. They've managed to get society to believe in financial growth, growth and nothing but growth to the point where large corporations have been successfully sued for attempting to plan for long term success instead of quarterly profits. As the GameStop saga has discovered, they've been trading stocks illegally to pick and choose which companies were able to survive.
The whole purpose of money is to control the structure of society by financially incentivizing some things while discouraging others. Look at the early days of COVID for example, where they convinced a huge number of doctors and nurses to comply by offering bonuses for each COVID patient. They've managed to get society to believe in financial growth, growth and nothing but growth to the point where large corporations have been successfully sued for attempting to plan for long term success instead of quarterly profits.