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Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing by MaxBarraclough on Saturday January 13, 2024 @12:56PM (#38982588)
> nationalization also lowers the ceiling on how good it can be

How's that? What private company outshines, say, NASA (especially in its glory days)?

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Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing by dotnet00 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @02:21PM (#38983536)
If we're leaning on an excuse like glory days, why do anything to Boeing either?

After all, no one yet outshines their glory days of building classic planes and building the SaturnV?

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Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing by MaxBarraclough on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:41PM (#38984329)
I was responding to the suggestion that nationalization imposes a ceiling on quality.
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Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing by dotnet00 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @06:52PM (#38985975)
I understand that, but I don't agree that it makes sense to at all consider the "glory days" as indicative of the ceiling. As it isn't really relevant to discuss ceilings on quality in terms of exceptional circumstances.

Just like how the "glory days" of many nations or many companies are when they're unsustainably burning resources for a short time for the sole purpose of glory. To me quality implies sustainability.

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Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing by abduhl on Saturday January 13, 2024 @01:09PM (#38982728)
In what metric? SpaceX outshines them on launches. In fact, NASA has consistently outsourced design and construction to the private sector. The space shuttle? Privately built by Rockwell. Hubble? Lockheed. ISS module 1? Boeing.
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Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing by geoffreypoirier on Saturday January 13, 2024 @02:09PM (#38983402)
How about humans on the moon? NASA's still crushing SpaceX. (Glory days.)
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Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing by tekla on Saturday January 13, 2024 @01:52PM (#38983208)
What does NASA build?
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