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Microsoft is the new Boeing.
by belter 1y ago
Microsoft is the new Boeing.
- IAmBroom 1y agoBoeing isn't "too big to fail". That was used to describe the big banks at the middle of the Great Recession. Boeing is "the only game in town". All other big-aircraft manufacturers are foreign.
- behringer 1y agosounds like a great reason to break them up
- anonymousiam 1y agoLeave Boeing alone. The way they're going, they'll break themselves up eventually.
- immibis 1y agoAs Boeings tend to do.
- themafia 1y agoBeing the "only game in town" grants them special status as a US defense contractor given that many agencies are required to source their materiel domestically. So, to me, the "too big to fail" set absolutely includes "only game in town." It's really just a special case of it.