The elites seek to insure their social reproduction through nonmarket access to the state. The state being their economic backstop to the vagaries of the market–i.e., uncertainty–of actual competition. This is because they are not quite up to snuff in terms of competitiveness and knowledge of the production process. They have been schooled in finance, and not any longer in production engineering. Hence their gravitation to statism, and nonmarket social reproduction. They are simply not fit enough to survive the rigors of actual capitalism. And then they seek to blame the workers for their own intellectual shortcomings and skills. Dear readers we see the same thing in the English capitalist class at the turn of the 20th century. Because of their own lack of training they seek to restore profitability of their enterprises through the lowering of wages and off-shoring of jobs. Ergo: their fixation on unchecked and unvetted immigration to lower wages through manufacturing a surplus army of unemployed.