>Or is it something else → using children for some kind of immortality?
Maybe not immortality, but definitely prolonging of life.
What does a rich fuck who can buy anything want? More time.
Utilities (eg electric and water distribution, especially) are natural monopolies and really should be public owned.
The bail out of shareholders should come at the expense of returning it to public ownership.
Otherwise, its basically privatizing the profits and socializing the losses.