Indeed, this has become apparent, since what we used to consider as "Fair play" seems to have been tossed to the wind. Since when was it acceptable for anyone to obstruct another in a race, for example, to ensure they won, even if they were slower than the other competitor? We've seen technology actually going backwards since about the seventies, when we were walking on the moon, space shuttling, and flying supersonic commercial flights. Now we have a few struggling commercial airline companies left, with even they swinging for one another with dirty trick campaigns to survive, its a mess, that we need to fix, since there is no shortage of wealth, only wealth obstructed like you say.
We can even see physical proof of wealth being received but not distributed to those who need it most, at cost even of their lives, whilst tens of GigaJoules of energy per second, donated to us from the sun, with no labor of extraction, are being put to use, but not reflected by issue of free money.
So inflation is spiralling and will continue to do until the free money reflecting the free energy is issued.
They can't get around that, as far as I can see, it is only a matter of time now, before they have to issue the money to preserve its value.