The somehow is simple. They have the money to sway elections, conduct propoganda campaigns and pay lobbyists and bribe economists who have made profit king, invoking Adam Smith, when in fact Smith believed that over time profit motive should give way to rising wages. I read a very interesting piece yesterday on the lie that capitalism as practiced does anything to relieve poverty. It seems to have the opposite effect. https://mitchellglennfrommichigan.medium.com/new-study-takes-the-mask-off-capitalism-and-extreme-poverty-discourse-9293019357e7