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what do you even do at this point? so much of US flight infrastructure is based around boeing and they're literally falling apart in the sky nasa wanted compe
by stainablesteel 2y ago
what do you even do at this point?
so much of US flight infrastructure is based around boeing and they're literally falling apart in the sky
nasa wanted competition with spacex so badly that they've pushed boeing to strand two of their astronauts in space
companies that fail due to inherent internal structural and corruption issues need to be broken down and sold off, but we can't even do that because the US is somehow reliant on it
why must we write out our own downfall through corruption with failing companies? i bet there's thousands of upstarts that would take 1/1000th the funding given to boeing for a lot of their important projects that would come up with genuinely innovative solutions to problems we never knew we had if there were actual competition in aerospace
- dmix 2y agoThis is what happens when you eliminate consequences for bad behaviour in any industry private or public You can only kick the can down the road for so long. It’s only going to get worse and in 10yrs we’ll be wondering why it’s even worse than it is in 2024 while people will still defend how necessary it is to national security to prop up a half useless megacorporation, when it’s actually harming it Let them face risk, let the good/important parts be sold to better leaders, there’s plenty of money floating around to dump into the market to let competition take over the second there’s an opportunity for a new lively major business sector.
- nerdponx 2y agoIt would be less of a problem if the industry had not consolidated into literally two major companies in the entire world. You want incentives for a corporations to follow rules? Ensure that there is more than one or two of them.