Boeing

[johncorrigan]

Following the door blowout in the Boeing 737 last week, I thought this was a very interesting article.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-is-boeing-such-a-shitty-corporation?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=140821143&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1bb7bs&utm_medium=email

[richardfinegold]

Following the door blowout in the Boeing 737 last week, I thought this was a very interesting article.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/w...m_medium=email

Interesting. American Health Care is also dominated by large corporations that only care for the bottom line financially. Capitalism making life better for all of us

[Serial_Apologist]

Back in the 80s, when Rolls-Royce Aerospace - Producers of Concorde and vertical take-off engines, which ironically had been nationalised by the Heath Tory government as a nationally indispensable defense industry - was re-privatised, aero engine production was largely re-prioritised for civil aircraft. The benefits thereby accrued to Boeing, Rolls's main world competitor. I remember it as employees were bribed with free shares which many union reps went along with. Then having at the start of the 1990s been "out-competed" Rolls implemented massive "rationalisation", euphemism for mass redundancy, and has been shrinking ever since. General word out is that Boeing profited on us by doing things on the cheap, short-cutting on safety, hence the latest round of... "problems". Richard Finegold has it nailed.

[Maclintick]

Interesting. American Health Care is also dominated by large corporations that only care for the bottom line financially. Capitalism making life better for all of us

This is also relevant:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-the-faa-allows-jetmakers-to-self-certify-that-planes-meet-us-safety-requirements/2019/03/15/96d24d4a-46e6-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html

Another case of a statutorily-empowered regulator allowing an organisation to mark their own homework, & thereby putting public safety at risk...