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Re:Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own d... by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:24PM (#19983976)
The aim of a corporation is to serve the common interests of it's shareholders (you might add “as understood by it's management”); most commonly, with a widely held corporation, those common interests are limited to making money.
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Re:Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own d... by pfortuny on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:11AM (#19989881)
No: I understand it as "by its definition as corporation" (i.e. Boeing might make a lot more money if they just turned into a collection of car factories, for example -just for example-) but then it would not be Boeing.
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Re:Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own d... by dragonwriter on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:20AM (#19999539)
Corporations can and do pivot their lines of business like that, and retain their identity. (Though at times they also find it useful to rebrand with a pivot.)
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Re:Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own d... by munk-a on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:26PM (#19984004)
The poster above was half right that the incentive isn't necessarily to maximize profits, but you're more correct that our current societal rules make money the singular goal of these entities.
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