@cjd I wish this were true.
The people that are the "captain's of industry" are not the smartest people in the room, they just happened to figure out how to game the system.
The free market never has and will never exist. It's all a game of Crony Capitalism, buying political influence that then tilts the table in whatever direction you want it to be moved.
Add to that currencies that have no real world backing, only financial trickery.