The first is by saying that life is so complicated, so complex, that there is nothing any one person can do. So we cannot be held responsible for how things are. Even the people at the top are trapped. The President is strangled by his policies and promises. Congress must abide by a corrupt but unchangeable system.
Stockholders prevent big businesses from doing what they choose.
The lawyers limit folks actions by setting institutional policies designed to protect the business from suit. No wonder a poll of college students showed that political interest and engagement was at its lowest ebb in the twenty years that the poll has been taken. We live in a democratic country, but folks relate to it like the Germans related to Hitler in the '30's. You don't understand what it's like to live in a totalitarian state. You have heard me rant on about this before.