Well, speaking of airplane industry one thing is obvious - you can’t build great airplanes without money and you can’t get large sums of money without building

Well, speaking of airplane industry one thing is obvious - you can’t build great airplanes without money and you can’t get large sums of money without building great airplanes. The survival/prosperity question is of balance, not of preference of one to another. I do not know why the author decided to “simplify” things. In my field of experience such simplifications end very badly. I guess if someone decided to really just build great airplanes no matter the costs - his enterprise would have ended very badly too. Now, the question of finding a proper balance, as each engineer knows - this is the question of real pain and real beauty. But - is it possible to write an article about a struggle to find a proper balance in something? anything? Will anyone read such an article? Imagine, how many things should be explained before the problem becomes clear…