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By having no top. In socialism, there are no capitalist owners, and the only way to make money is through having a job and its corresponding salary. If you don't believe socialism reduces the flow of money from "bottom" to "top", you can check empirical data. Top 1% in modern capitalist Russia has above 20% the total income of the country. In Soviet times, they possessed 4% of the total income. This is a marked reduction in the money flowing to the top.
Because democracy under capitalism is a lie. Having a powerful owning class whose interests oppose those of the majority ensures that the interests of the majority will be ignored.
Now you have answers
"How" is ambiguous; you describe a system that have not those issue, but not how to get this system. If we agree on the following :
Then we need to organize internationally in order to get the mean of production, and without a "top" that could become ruling class. I think that's pretty much describe revolutionary unionism or anarcho-syndicalism.