Financially massive organizations warp the environment they inhabit much like the way gravitationally massive bodies warp space-time in physics: Normal rules do not apply to them. Giant companies influence Congress, the executive branch, and local governing bodies to pass legislation they want—granting them subsidies, protection, environmental relief, favorable tax status, and so on—and otherwise treat them in ways that are perfectly legal, but outside what the equations of economics predict.
Aperture Science is a pretty great fictional example.
