So the system creates an illusion of ownership

Big corporations need a workforce to keep accumulating wealth. They need a workforce that does not cause problems or rebel. People would eventually revolt if they believed they had nothing. So the system creates an illusion of ownership with loans and credit cards. The main thing is to keep the workers from thinking too hard, so they wouldn't cause trouble. The conventional media is used to numb rational thinking by entertaining the public with mind dulling activities.

Corporations are only capitalistic at the highest level. Moving down the management ladder, the employees experience a greater and greater amount of socialism. They get their orders from the collective they call 'corporate'. At lower levels, individuality is discouraged and conformity is applauded. Corporations tell their employees that they are part of their family and use the word teamwork to stress conformity in an upbeat way.

The use of technology has greatly increased the bureaucracy associated with the corporate culture. Computers introduced much easier means to track such things as inventory, efficiency, and the workforce. The amount of paperwork associated with previously simple operations skyrocketed. The internet became a home for databases referencing work history, medical records, shopping habits, and many other categories.

Public schools and many 'technical' colleges are training people be procedural rather than creative. Someone who learns to do things step by step following some rule and never questions the reason for this rule is procedural. When one is creative, one tries to understand why he or she is performing a task. Creativity allows the individual to be able to perform the same task in a variety of ways, not just by following some pre-established rule set down by someone of a higher rank in the collective hive. There is nothing wrong in rules if they are useful. By using our creativity, we can investigate how useful these rules really are rather just taking someone else's word for it.