Increased corporate profits are caused by rich people who invest their money for profit instead of investing in endeavors benefiting humanity,
The latter is what capitalists should be doing, following Smith, who said: that if one is good for society, one can make profits; the market will take care of how much one can make.
Good deeds, in his reasoning, are the antecedents and profits the consequent.
That is why capitalism has become the fallacy that screwed everything up.
Rich people say: " I make money ( the consequent); fuck society! (The antecedent); I control the market by forcing entrepreneurs to pay me dividends.
There you have it!!!