Yet another reason why you don’t let corporations merge until there’s only one left. Because when this one fails, your domestic industry for this product is gone.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Hmmm, it almost seems like poor leadership shouldn’t have spent 43 billion on stock buybacks over the last 10 years. Or, you know, resolve the strike and get your cash flow moving again.
This is a MUCH better Business Plan then Paying your Workers to LITERALLY make your Products!
There's so many things that went wrong at Boeing, not the least of which is a lack of technical competency in upper management. However, this is how capitalism is supposed to work: Old companies make mistakes or become too big/inefficient and die while new ones rise up to replace them.
The regulations surrounding aircraft should be all that's necessary to ensure their safety... If Boeing dies that will mean loads of opportunities for new competitors to spring up and replace them.
You can't rely on a market with only two players for long; let Boeing die and break up Airbus if they abuse their resulting monopoly. If necessary, subsidize competition and treat the existing monopoly as a hostile player until there's real competition.
You may think, "but airlines are too big to fail" and to that I say, "bullshit!" There's a million ways to make safe airplanes and just as many ways to improve how Boeing was doing things. The short term will likely suck but the long term will leave us better off.
Except building the technical and logistical capability to build planes on the scale of Boeing takes decades of effort and billions in investments. And in that time, one of the major logistical lynchpins for the entire US economy is just fucking gone. That's not just going to suck in the short term, that's going to cripple us as a country for fucking decades.
But yeah, free market, weee!
There's smaller companies like Boom which would probably love to get so much space and opportunity for cash flow just producing parts while they develop their own planes. Lockheed Martin while mostly military nowadays used to be in the consumer space and could also probably be talked into taking some of the load.
Let em get sold for parts, that company is dead in the water.
"Now it's being ALLOWED to borrow gems of billions of dollars"
Headlines be acting like everyone's powerless to stop these corporations. Banks are complicit. Politicians are complicit.
Whatever they borrow from is going to be a bubble.
We're watching a huge company collapse in real-time.