Not only that. The current economic system is fundamentally flawed due to the fact that it is based on usury (aka interest). We have known for thousands of years that interest is evil, yet people still engage in it. Then we complain about wealth gaps and how people lower on the economic-ladder are slaves, completely bypassing the fact that interest plays a direct role in keeping the cycle going.
The stock buyback thing is just idiotic. It's just dividends by another name.
Boeing/Airbus are not responsible for the current crisis, unlike the banks in 2008.
Buyback is more tax efficient than dividends.
What would you have done,if you were Boing CEO?
If you're Microsoft or Apple or Google, the answer is "Hold hundreds of billions of dollars of cash" [1]
That article, from late 2019, feels such holdings are in need of explanation; today, they seem like common sense.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...