That'd be a good plan, if you could count on the loot flowing fairly & proportionately to any commoner who buys shares on the public markets. But in a rentier racket this big, that doesn't happen.
Large amounts go to management insiders, or are kicked-back to politicians & their allies or pet causes via donations or sweetheart deals to favored projects – which might show up as "losses" on "failed projects" eventually, but hey, it can all be covered out of the privileged rolling take from everyone on the outside.
Large amounts go to management insiders, or are kicked-back to politicians & their allies or pet causes via donations or sweetheart deals to favored projects – which might show up as "losses" on "failed projects" eventually, but hey, it can all be covered out of the privileged rolling take from everyone on the outside.