Somehow I suspect that if the earth swallowed every employee of Boeing and Airbus, and every plane ever produced by either, there would be more airplanes and more airplane manufacturers soon enough.
he seems trustworthy.
Bailing these things out only protects executives and shareholders, I hope you’re not arguing that those have been doing a good thing for the world recently.
May even be better in the end, though let's say the USSR and NASA stopped space launch vechiles - how long would it take to make an alternative. Longer than we appreciate.
So, still Boeing.
For now, give them a loan, as much as they need, interest free for 10 years. No more bonuses nor stock buybacks until the loan has been repaid.
No one has to be bailed out. They can take out loans, issue new shares, or file for bankruptcy. The government should not be bailing anyone out.
At least that's the bankruptcy theory. Real world bankruptcy may well have a lot more friction.
Feel free to educate me on how the real world works here!
Not to mention that maybe letting them get so big was a mistake in the first place? Based on petty power games of "leaders" (in politics, finance and business) and not on technical necessities.
Determining how deep that goes is tough. Replacing the executive level is admitting the company must replace with a radically different culture. Those take time to cultivate, and the US incentives are aligned such that without great effort, standard American business culture is to evolve to what we see from Boeing. The tragedy isn't that Boeing is exceptional in its systemic broken culture, the tragedy is that this is par for the entire American business edifice without assiduous work by company leadership (many examples of that working away without recognition, but business journalism shares blame in lionizing on KPIs that don't measure for the brokenness); Boeing is simply different by scale of acute fatalities flowing straight from the business culture.
"Management" is a group of ordinary people who are doing their jobs - trying to maximize profits for their employers. I'm not going to sit here and say my job is any different. I'm writing code so my employer will make money, not anyone else.
What specifically are you going to punish management for?
> What specifically are you going to punish management for?
Maybe punish them for their myopic view on "maximizing profits"? What's worth more: $100 in profit in Q1, or $25 in profit for the next 8 quarters? It would better for everyone if we had a return to sustainability in the private sector.
It wouldn't be that long for new companies to pop up if the only two players collapsed. People can just buy the existing facilities for making parts and assembly.
Maybe we ought to rethink the extent of our wants versus our needs.
'Why what we’ve been doing stopped working and why you don’t have to assume it: So, there was a chaotic system and an organizational structure on top of that system that could not react to disruption and the wheels ground to a halt. (...)'
Asked just one Topic away, 'Is the status quo scaling?' P-:
Management should be punished excessively as a warning to others, though I do not expect them to be punished at all.