> I think politically, everyone would want airlines to have working IT-systems and they would probably want to pay $100 (rationally, closer to $1000) amortized over 50 years to pay for that, but apparently humanity is just too stupid to make it work.

Not stupid, just corrupt :)

If we did this, the money would get misappropriated or stolen - most likely completely legally through overpaid consulting fees.

So clearly we should pay someone to prevent that from happening.

Wait a minute...