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This was a very interesting clarification, but I don't get the last part. Why would Boeing be nobility?

• convolvatron 5y ago
  presumably because boeing has influence over government policy.
• derefr 5y ago
  The American military needs Boeing (and Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, etc.) to supply parts for their jet fighters, missiles, etc.; enough so that if these companies were owned by selfish individuals rather than profit-driven corporations; and those selfish individuals pressed the issue of "maybe not making any more missiles for the military" at just the right time, then they'd not only not be charged with treason, but instead would get whatever they wanted, up-to-and-including having laws rewritten to serve them. As well, such a hypothetical individual owner of Boeing, together with a few other such individual owners for other military industries, could independently declare a "vote of no confidence" in their country, and "hand over" power to some foreign nation invading them, simply by cutting off war-time logistical supply at just the right time. These types of power, are exactly the sorts of power that made classical aristocrats, aristocrats, rather than just courtiers.