Modernization of equipment, hiring more pilots and other employees, investing in updating the code base - how can that be done? It's far more important to keep the stock price high by whatever means necessary, such as using government bailouts to buy back shares.

Investment capitalism is really a garbage system when it comes to building and maintaining basic infrasctructure like transportation, electricity grids, roads and so on. China has demonstrated that convincingly over the past two decades, hasn't it?