There is a hidden cost built into the operation of capital, that very naturally goes unsaid because of its superfluous nature.
The executives of the world's largest corporations make astronomical sums, and the staggered tiers of managers have to make tidy sums as well to keep those vehicles of extraction squeezing what production and profit they can.
The upper earners of these classes set the standard which all of the rest of the participants in a given class aspire to, the sums of which are required to provide motivation for the job. There is no other reason to participate in these awful structures; there is no joy in it. The primary animating principle to operating a corporation or state institution in which all of the joys of living have died is the promise of wealth and the status that comes with it.
So if you let your top earners get away with obscenely high sums of wealth, then all of the other high earners in your other economic structures are going to want the same thing, and many of the politicians in the highest positions of power are going to want the same thing as well.
This is what you have to keep in mind when you see rising commodity and real estate prices. And rising taxes because more is being extracted out of the public coffers as well. All of those dickheads at the top have to maintain their multiple vacation homes, palatial mansions, fine dining and shopping habits, top tier vehicle stables, yachts, servants, drivers, private jets, and all the rest.
If you have a class which enjoys these incredible concentrations of wealth, then all of the people that are motivated to join that class will require those sorts of spoils, or else they'll go through other channels to get them. If all of your essential societal functions are operated by this class, then that is where a large proportion of the energy is going to go.
