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Some things come to mind: - Better whistleblower protections - Personal liability for making false or misleading statements to a regulatory agent - Corporate

by tremon 6y ago

Some things come to mind: - Better whistleblower protections - Personal liability for making false or misleading statements to a regulatory agent - Corporate death penalty. No more "too big to fail" nonsense. If there were actual competition among aviation manufacturers, the government could just dissolve the company and auction off the product lines to competitors. Safeguarding against capture from the regulatory side is more difficult. But I guess term limits for decision-making positions could help, or having a good process for identifying and declaring conflicts of interest?

sneak 6y ago
Not only would such a corporate death penalty never, ever get used against Boeing by the USG if such a thing were to exist, the USG would not advance such a circumstance where it could exist in the first place. There are a number of industries and companies that will exist as long as the current USG does, at least for our lifetimes, due to decisions that were made long ago. Examples include Lockheed, Boeing, and Microsoft. Any solution to the problem needs to accept and address the levels of deep integration between these companies and the state.
- xxpor 6y ago
  The first step could be forcing Boeing to spin out McDonnell Douglas again. The real issue is there are 0 alternatives to Boeing right now for US based design for the DoD.
  - sneak 6y ago
    Having more than one supplier is unnecessary complexity, insofar as there is no competition or market forces at work anyway, nor will there be any permitted by the participants. It'd require a lot more ass-covering to pretend that the company isn't just an arm of the government, entitled to a neverending stream of practically unlimited tax dollars. Look at the whole kerfuffle that Amazon is making over JEDI being given to Microsoft. Under the current system, that's probably better avoided.

by tremon 6y ago

sneak 6y ago

Not only would such a corporate death penalty never, ever get used against Boeing by the USG if such a thing were to exist, the USG would not advance such a circumstance where it could exist in the first place. There are a number of industries and companies that will exist as long as the current USG does, at least for our lifetimes, due to decisions that were made long ago. Examples include Lockheed, Boeing, and Microsoft. Any solution to the problem needs to accept and address the levels of deep integration between these companies and the state.

xxpor 6y ago
The first step could be forcing Boeing to spin out McDonnell Douglas again. The real issue is there are 0 alternatives to Boeing right now for US based design for the DoD.
- sneak 6y ago
  Having more than one supplier is unnecessary complexity, insofar as there is no competition or market forces at work anyway, nor will there be any permitted by the participants. It'd require a lot more ass-covering to pretend that the company isn't just an arm of the government, entitled to a neverending stream of practically unlimited tax dollars. Look at the whole kerfuffle that Amazon is making over JEDI being given to Microsoft. Under the current system, that's probably better avoided.