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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, doing something so drastic in this situation doesn’t make sense. It’s possible that reality is somewhere in the middle. I have a very difficult time believing they would actually off the guy, but it’s not so difficult to believe they might hire some investigators to look for skeletons in his closet. Perhaps they found some. Obviously this is wild speculation and not intended to be a theory—just an example of so…
some people kill others because they run out of nutella, some kill others to rob $10 from their pockets, some kill them for fun, but its difficult to believe a giant corporation with A LOT to hide would kill a whistleblower?
Those are examples of irrational people doing things without regard to consequences. That’s not particularly relevant to what conditions would likely need to exist for a giant corporation to decide to do something like that. It would not be difficult to believe if this person had unique knowledge that likely would not come to light otherwise. Then I could see a rational (and terrible) person deciding that the benefit is worth the risk. It just wouldn’t make sense in this case. It’s not like this one guy was going to break Boeing substantially more than they’re already broken.
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#103Hm, this thread once again slid down the top page at an alarming rate, even though the safety of the environment surrounding engineers is a serious concern of engineers. Hacker News is surprisingly dismissive of user interests and votes.
Note that even if it is a suicide, it is still a safety problem of the environment surrounding engineers. Since it is Boeing that pressured him until he committed suicide.
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People like you are why there is severe distrust of media.
A corporate drone doesn't have to order this. A high-up executive with connections with the underworld will do it, because they have enough at stake.
And of course, you are going to laugh at 'connection with the underworld'. Then go check up wirecard. Their CEO ran off to Russia.
You are utterly ignorant yet utterly arrogant. If you knew more, you wouldn't make these claims. If you knew far less, you also would just arrive at the natural conclusion that this is a cover-up killing.
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#105Is it me or the "apparent" in the title implies it looks like a suicide but is not conclusively one?
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I think thats part of the conspiracy: you don't directly murder one guy, you show him skeletons you know about him and tell him you will put them out in the public. The rest solves itself.
It’s not about intimidating or sending a message, it’s about undermining the credibility of a witness. This happens every day in $10,000 slip fall cases across the country. If someone is making accusations against your client, and they cheat on their wife / don’t pay their taxes / whatever, and you don’t bring that to light so the jury can evaluate their credibility, you’re committing malpractice.
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>But a country like China would punish the corruption by Boeing management with death. That's a great incentive to not be corrupt.
I've long since come to the conclusion that the reason today's politicians, executives, and others in position of power are so flagrantly corrupt is because they don't risk paying with their lives for their troubles anymore.
The feudal age wasn't a great time to live in as a peasant, but you can bet the nobles above you were greatly incentivized to act generally in your (and/or the kingdom's) interests because to do otherwise would have meant their (very vicious) deaths.
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#109I don't buy the foul play theories. What could this person possibly reveal that is worse that has already come out? They crashed two 737 Max's full of passengers for crying out loud.
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>But a country like China would punish the corruption by Boeing management with death. That's a great incentive to not be corrupt. I've long since come to the conclusion that the reason today's politicians, executives, and others in position of power are so flagrantly corrupt is because they don't risk paying with their lives for their troubles anymore. The feudal age wasn't a great time to live in as a peasant, but…
The nobles of the feudal age are the C-level suite of today. They move around the map conquering lands, and lands come with employees/peasants. Their goal? Squeeze as much value out of the workforce as possible. Except in the medieval version moving wasn't possible, so I think I'll take the modern version :-)