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A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The US is just collapsing everywhere. What a time to be alive.

[–] nifty 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think that’s a fair assessment, everything people have built up to now relies on a significantly greater amount of complexity. There is a lot which works well and is held together by hardworking, unsung normal everyday folks, but you don’t make the national news for getting shit done or keeping stuff functional.

That said, yeah the bean counters have fucking ruined engineering firms, and it’s a story which repeats itself over and over. There’s also the issue of nepo babies or “I know this person” incest in a lot of places where qualified people are passed over for someone “you know”. The nepotism and cronyism phenomenon is a huge problem for many institutions, not just engineering firms. Nepotism and cronyism is not just an American issue, it’s something you see everywhere.

Regarding unqualified people, I do think maybe standards should be raised for entry into some college programs. But the only way raising standards would make sense if we significantly invest in public education. In short, a lot of “breaking” of America is the direct result of short sighted Republican policies.

[–] EnderLaw 31 points 3 months ago

Boeing shifted production to break the Seattle unions. That's been a sound financial decision so far...except for all of the failures and dead people.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well Boeing is just overall imploding...

[–] Angry_Autist 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boeing is just a symptom of the rampant corporate greed and irresponsibility that modern MBAs teach as part of normal daily operations.

It affects everyone, makes everyone less safe and less secure. Enshittification on a world scale brought to you by Next Quarter Only bottom line capitalism.

But the powers that be are fine with it for now, mainly because of class war.

[–] TubularTittyFrog 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I taught business ethnics for MBAs when i was in graduate school.

The only 'ethics' they learned was 'maximize shareholder value at any price'. They spent an entire semester learning to to argue why murdering people and abusing people was morally justified as long as the share price goes up. That was the curriculum. Nothing else mattered.

[–] Angry_Autist 2 points 3 months ago

If humanity survives this with our records intact, future historians will put a huge chunk of the blame on that mentality.

It really started with Dodge vs Ford, that codified the mentality as mainstream and we have paid the price for it every year since.