I'm reminded of the Chinese guy who paid two million yuan for a hit, and then the hit man kept half and outsourced it, and that guy kept half and outsourced it,

I'm reminded of the Chinese guy who paid two million yuan for a hit, and then the hit man kept half and outsourced it, and that guy kept half and outsourced it, down to five levels deep, and finally the guy at the very bottom faked the murder, got caught, and the whole chain got rolled up. That's basically Boeing. Somewhere is a hut and parts are being made on a dirt floor in a half-assed way - or at least the modern equivalent of that. This supports an enormous pyramid of managers, business process outsourcers, accountants, lobbyists, and executives. Meanwhile, real engineers are holding their head crying at what happened to their company.