. . "ElC Talk about disingenuous, I shouldnt even have to point out that rising stock prices disproportionately benefit the 1%, along with the CEO???s.And buy backs may pump up the stock price short term, but it???s a totally unproductive use of profit, as the author said long term it hurts the company because it???s not going to the things that grow the company such as investing in employees and R and" . . .