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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by SerLava on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:20AM (#25287511)
You can't simply acculturate businesses against it- they will slowly be replaced by other businesses headed by ruthless sociopathic maximizers of shareholder value.

This is the guaranteed outcome given this way of organizing commerce. Just as if you organized everyone into medieval guilds, we would replicate the behavior of medieval guilds.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by scottlocklin on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:44AM (#25287953)
>they will slowly be replaced by other businesses headed by ruthless sociopathic maximizers of shareholder value.

I dunno man, the culture came from McDonnell-Douglass which was actually purchased by engineer-centric-at-the-time Boeing. How this culture spread in Boeing ought to be some kind of HBS case study, except they wouldn't notice that it should be taken as a cautionary tale.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by dotancohen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:03AM (#25288049)
For those unfamiliar with the case: Boeing and McDonnell-Douglass actually merged, but the name stayed Boeing. It is often said in the industry that McDonnell-Douglass bought Boeing with Boeing's own money.

The company that today uses the name Boeing looks, acts, and quacks a lot more like 1970s-1995 MD did, than 1970s-1995 Boeing did.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by alavesto on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:12AM (#25288465)
And McDonnell-Douglass were/are true masters of building deadly aircraft.
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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by SerLava on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:33AM (#25322050)
My comment really didn't intend to rule out mergers, or even businesses changing by themselves. I'm just saying they inevitably end up that way, by replacement if necessary.
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