We are living in a post-profit world.

Companies show value from stock prices and assets (like IPs), NOT revenue. The stock market is a suicide cult at this point. Companies use all their assets to back loans and then use that cash to buyback stock and buy more IPs, which gives them more assets they can use to back even more loans. It just wrings every last drop of value out of the system before it all collapses.

Obviously this should be illegal and probably is but everyone is too dependant on the system to do anything about it. Nothing will fail until everyone fails.