What REALLY Happened to BOEING? The Rise and Fall of an American Engineering Colossus

https://youtu.be/wmFSa76-ZTY?si=TF8CzJniOwM_7MGG

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sepi@piefed.social · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

They stopped making planes and started making money instead.

robotemoji@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

This should be the title

jet@hackertalks.com · 5 pts · 2y

This..

Engineering company taken over by financiers to play money games instead. It's been a long time since their leader was a engineer.

Money games are fine and good, but society needs people to do actual quality work sometimes. So maybe keep money games out of life critical systems

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Unconditional government bailouts and subsidies

JoMomma@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y

Board of directors that has a profit over all else policy, like most boards

robotemoji@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That would do it

Fades@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Demands from capitalism to become singular zombie focussed ‘quarterly record profits’ chasers