This is downstream from the notion that companies need to have infinite growth forever. Of course, that's not possible, so this is the end stages of that: wealth trickles up while the, well... you can guess what's trickling down.
Ironically, "Trickle-Down Economics" was phrased in a circa-1900 political cartoon as "The horse eats the grain, and then trickles it down to the sparrow on the barn floor." I'll let you picture the image.
