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Asking because I legitimately don't know: was the FAA failure here more attributable to the agency, or the funding (and therefore manpower*expertise) available
by gbrown 7y ago
Asking because I legitimately don't know: was the FAA failure here more attributable to the agency, or the funding (and therefore manpower*expertise) available to it?
- dahart 7y agoMany articles about the 737 Max crashes have been talking about how it’s largely a systemic failure of the process due to the US culture of deregulation. That would make this both attributable to the agency and to the funding in a way that is complex and hard to separate. As I understand it, the agency has been allowing airplane manufacturers to essentially do their own testing more and more over time, despite the obvious conflict of interest.
- cromka 7y agoCame here with the same thought. It's not just the culture at Boeing. We see this everyday in US on different levels of administration. This country is simply owned by corporations and while deregulation was great for the progress which built it, it's not ok anymore.
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoIf you work in a place where there is not enough funding for your job to do it safely and people may day, you need to walk away.
- sjy 7y agoI think that attitude is part of the problem. If you're competent, it's usually much easier to find a new job than it is to take on entrenched cultural and funding problems that create risks. This further entrenches the problems by driving out dissenters, and if you work for a regulator, the 'creative destruction' of the free market can't fix it either.
- pas 7y agoWhile all true, by quitting you escalate the problem. If upper layers "solve" it by hiring less competent people, then that is something on their conscience. When the problem is at the top, just bearing with it at the bottom will not help at all. Even if you manage to save lives, you virtually sacrifice your own.
- magduf 7y agoNo good deed goes unpunished.