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It should come as no surprise that Boeing is simply motivated by money at every turn and nothing else. No individual is ever held personally liable in the US fo
by elromulous 4y ago
It should come as no surprise that Boeing is simply motivated by money at every turn and nothing else. No individual is ever held personally liable in the US for cases like these (vs e.g diesel gate in Europe). And the fines against the company are a joke at best.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> It should come as no surprise that Boeing is simply motivated by money at every turn and nothing else. That's just a normal company.
- 317070 4y agoIf I understand OP well, normal companies are fortunately still bounded by laws on criminal negligence. People working for most companies also avoid that the situation gets so bad that they risk becoming personally liable.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> normal companies are fortunately still bounded by laws on criminal negligence ...because it's bad for money to break them. Money is still the motivation.
- parminya 4y agoSo why not just reinterpret the original comment so it survives, and take it to highlight the difference between a rule-of-law legal system that punishes rich companies who break the law until it has motivated law-following behavior, and a corrupt legal system that does not punish rich companies who break the law enough to motivate law-following behavior. I don't think the balance between Europe and the US has always been in Europe's favor, so it's not like there's no capacity to improve.
- noahtallen 4y agoIt’s the fatal flaw of capitalism: any time X is actually more important than making money, companies (especially public ones) cannot focus on X above all else. (A great example is health companies, where human health and well-being is the most important variable, but often conflicts with making money.)
- fmajid 4y agoBoeing was corrupted and phagocyted by McDonnell Douglas from the inside after the merger, and is now a shell of its former self.