[SauronOfMordor]

The "elites" prefer a "planned" economy and society, with themselves, of course, as the planners. They have more in common with their fellow "planners" across the globe, than they do with joe-sixpack.

When your main skill is intrigue and organizational politics, and your main asset is your web of contacts and the powerful people who owe favors to you, the last thing you want to see is the chaos and randomity of a free market economy, where upstarts can rise to riches -- upstarts who owe you nothing