Their hair would be on fire if they knew who was flying jets in the Air Force and Navy, flying attack helicopters in the Army, and commanding platoons, companies, battalions and brigades of soldiers on the ground.
That's unnerving... but not surprising. Where's the issue? The training? The selection process? The vehicles? Or is it just overinvestment in tech and under investment in the actual humans using it?
"Unfettered capitalism" gives rise to "Profits over people." Even with regular examples -- from Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Auto, Amazon (Big Internet, Big et al), and now Big Aircraft -- of decisions that hurt everybody and everything other than the bottom line, there is little opportunity for a major re-think. The kinds of course corrections needed involve going head-to-head with these Bigs and their armies of lobbyists and their bankloads of campaign contributions, a classic unfair fight. Plus reform is complicated by (wait for it) Big Polarization. If reform ideas come from left-ish idealism, the whole MAGA mob explodes into their media bubble and accuses reformers of being communist/socialist/one-worldist anti-Americans.
I have confidence Boeing will fight its way out of their current problems. Perhaps how and how publicly this happens will give some guidelines for our Profit Over People problem. One hopes.
Their hair would be on fire if they knew who was flying jets in the Air Force and Navy, flying attack helicopters in the Army, and commanding platoons, companies, battalions and brigades of soldiers on the ground.
I have confidence too Will- and am very glad to hear your name isn't ill!
That's unnerving... but not surprising. Where's the issue? The training? The selection process? The vehicles? Or is it just overinvestment in tech and under investment in the actual humans using it?
"Unfettered capitalism" gives rise to "Profits over people." Even with regular examples -- from Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Auto, Amazon (Big Internet, Big et al), and now Big Aircraft -- of decisions that hurt everybody and everything other than the bottom line, there is little opportunity for a major re-think. The kinds of course corrections needed involve going head-to-head with these Bigs and their armies of lobbyists and their bankloads of campaign contributions, a classic unfair fight. Plus reform is complicated by (wait for it) Big Polarization. If reform ideas come from left-ish idealism, the whole MAGA mob explodes into their media bubble and accuses reformers of being communist/socialist/one-worldist anti-Americans.
I have confidence Boeing will fight its way out of their current problems. Perhaps how and how publicly this happens will give some guidelines for our Profit Over People problem. One hopes.