To make the few rich, and the rest suffer. Get to the point where everyone is filled with such stress and uncertainty that human principles of self-preservation come in. Opinion just blows in the wind. People are lead to believe that things just happen on a whim, like loosing your job is just an accident, and that if they didn't have too, they wouldn't have fired you. Plans are not laid out to help anyone, or see the future of anything but profit.
People are a commodity.
No, that's not resources for humans to use, its Humans are a resource to be used as that extra dot in the profit margin graph. He's so overstressed from having to work 2 jobs to keep his family alive. He makes jack squat at both jobs, so it's a struggle to exist. No time for family life or investigation of the facts of the world are available. It's get up, work my fingers to the bone, eat, go to bed, to it again.