Well it kind of demonstrates the problem here. They've taken on an enormous amount of debt, slashed essential maintenance and paid out a ridiculous amount of dividends. To be able to do this prices have skyrocketed across the board.
What you're describing just sounds like a clever little tax dodge - to shuffle things around so that you can do a bit more with less for a period. But what consumers are actually seeing is a decline in service for an increase in prices, that's the opposite.
