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Agreed. The implications of the story make a good movie script, but it's hard for me to imagine how this could play out practically across so many people and so
by mbostleman 8y ago
Agreed. The implications of the story make a good movie script, but it's hard for me to imagine how this could play out practically across so many people and so many years. I mean whole careers started and ended in this saga.
I was thinking a more likely explanation is that once the original issue that ultimately was found to be the cause was dismissed, and after more and more fatalities built up, the consequence of admitting the problem may have been perceived as game over for Boeing. As in the financial and legal consequences would be unrecoverable. So basically like the web of lies problem - once they passed a certain point they couldn't go back.
- jplayer01 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analysis,_the_Pinto_Memo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analys... These are companies driven by greed. If they're in any way culpable, they should suffer consequences. There's nothing else to it.
- mbostleman 8y agoThe root motivation may very well be greed - I'm not attempting to go that deep. And whether or not they should or shouldn't suffer consequences is also a different issue.
- jplayer01 8y agoIt's not a different issue. If they're responsible, there should be consequences.