Lifting themselves up by their own continuously increasing record profit margins, while trickling down poverty and need for govt assistance to their employees, while simultaneously lobbying for destruction of those govt assistance programs to insure their employee pool is sick, desperate, available, grateful for poverty wages and compliant.

A reminder that stock buybacks used to be illegal.

https://casten.house.gov/media/in-the-news/theres-a-reason-why-stock-buybacks-used-to-be-illegal