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Airplane manufacturing sounds like a natural monopoly.
What's your complaint? asteroid impacts are natural events too. I would like the government to try to avert those.
It has been like that for 20 years.
Because Boeing is so important to national security, everyone involved in leading this from the CEO to the board of directors should be treated as traitors and have all their assets seized and spend the rest of their life in a maximum security federal prison.
You believe it's so traitorous to try to cut costs that it should result in life in prison for all members of the board and CEO? And why maximum security, do you believe they are going to be tunneling out with spoons?
It has been like that for 20 years.
American business operates like a feudal system with lords and peasants. Management are the lords and everyone else are the expendable peasants.
Occasionally, the lords are forced to acknowledge that the peasants are just as essential as they are. Without them there is nothing and no one to "lord" over.
This is the abherrent phase that Boeing has just entered. The system will be forced to either return to normal or simply cease to exist a la GE.
Boeing, once a symbol of American prestige and hegemony has fallen. Greed, hatred, delusion has poisoned the American psyche and its manifesting across all walks of life. Boeing is just one of the many examples. This is the end of the American era.
It is not the end because it is still getting only worse.
1. devaluation of its currency and rise of ponzi finance (Ex. dutch gild decline and tulip mania).
2. declaring perpetual war on an invisible enemy like opposing ideology, terrorists, drugs, poverty, etc
There's a third signal but its too controversial to talk about here.
Curious how we assign moral blame. Sure, Boeing put Wall Street first ahead of safety. But why isn't the headline "Wall Street put profits ahead of safety". Or "The electorate chooses capitalism over safety." During the oil crisis, highway speed limits were reduced to 55 mph, to ease the gas shortage. But an unexpected side effect was that about 4,000 less people died in car crashes each year. Would you be willing to…
If this is proven to be a criminal act, even of criminal negligence, charge not only the people making decisions, the board members, but also shareholders, relative to their holdings. Including grouped stocks such as funds.
All it will take is once for this to happen and shareholders to actually think about the repercussions of “investing” in corporations that do this kind of thing.
Boeing, once a symbol of American prestige and hegemony has fallen. Greed, hatred, delusion has poisoned the American psyche and its manifesting across all walks of life. Boeing is just one of the many examples. This is the end of the American era.