The book sets out the original author's concept of the essence of man as a set of relations of ownership and management. The author proves his statements based on a wealth of factual material relating to all the main aspects of human existence - from economics to human sexuality, from family relationships to politics, from the individual and mass psyche to religion. In this book, readers will discover unexpected approaches to explaining the most mysterious and important phenomena of human existence - from homosexuality to belief in God and the immortality of the soul, from economic and political crises to neurotic complexes and psychoses. For philosophers, economists, sociologists, historians and psychologists, as well as everyone who is interested in those current problems that are considered within the framework of the relevant sciences. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.