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Re:Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues by indymike on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:22PM (#21338567)
Here's the $100bn question: why does it have to cost $100bn? Is it natural, i.e. the actual complexity of the product, or is it artificial (regulatory overhead, procurement process, etc...). It so much seems like this may be some of both...
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Re:Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues by selectodude on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:31PM (#21338664)
Mostly the cost of complexity. For $20+ billion Comac can barely get a decent aircraft off the ground, and that's a state-owned enterprise with what amounts to an unlimited budget and likely more than a small percentage of industrial espionage.
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Re:Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues by christophilus on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:51PM (#21338872)
> and that's a state-owned enterprise with what amounts to an unlimited budget

I don't think that helps your case. I would expect a state-owned enterprise to be over-budget, especially if managers knew they had "what amounts to an unlimited budget".

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Re:Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues by Gibbon1 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:36PM (#21340851)
Depends on the state. In the US most such programs are just Military Industrial Keynesian Stimulus. Which why why they are full of fail if you think functional results are the goal rather than 'white people welfare'
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