It's good to see 40 years running a business has given you a good dose of common sense. /< sarcasm>
And rewarding company officials who mismanage and bankrupt a company? That's ok, since they're management, and not regular low-life employees? (But employees all the same).
If you don't like being a commodity start your own company or get used to being treated as a commidity.
No one starts or operates a business to employ people only to make a profit.
No one but government (and idiot Carter) would ever build a building for anyone to do business in or a house to live in except for profit.
Without profit people can live and do business under a bush or lay down and die as far as i'm concerned.