Politics has become a distraction and the vote a placebo. The real control has been financial for a long time. Then money as a system of control became more prevalent when banks were deputized by Nixon with new laws such as KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti Money Laundering) and CTF (Control of Terrorist Financing). Andreas Antonopoulos explains this here:
For some people unlimited wealth is a terrifying prospect; that everyone can build their own "space program", test their own nukes. etc is not high on the list of desires that they have for the masses. Money is really being used as a means to control what should and shouldn't be in the world.
They will never put it bluntly like this, but it is the truth. It's the reality that you're supposed to ignore and just go on pretending that the real reason you're poor is because you don't work hard enough.
Hoarding will be a hard habit to break, but it will eventually when replicators can create anything from biomedical cures to transportation...