The common yet questionable refrain incredibly still prevails amongst ‘free-market’ capitalist nation governments and corporate circles: It claims that best business practices, including what’s best for consumers, are best decided by business decision-makers. But that has been proven false numerous deadly times with the biggest of businesses, notably Boeing.
The first 737 Max crash was Lion Air Flight 610 [October 29, 2018], and the second was Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 [March 10, 2019], together horrifically killing all 346 people onboard.
The FAA basically rubber stamps the giant Boeing corporation’s new planes, as it did with the flawed 737 Max product, and who-knows-what before and after it.
Our (Canada’s) air-safety regulator seems just as bad: I feel that Canada’s air-safety regulator is just as bad: Following the two catastrophic crashes, Transport Canada deliberately waited for the FAA’s relatively-slow decision to ground the 737 Max planes flown by American carriers before Transport Canada finally acted here. (I can see Donald Trump liking that fact. Kinda 51st-state-ish of our Canuck government.)
The 737 Max atrocity remains most concerning, especially since the disasters were quite preventable but happened essentially due to Boeing corporate profit maximization.
I can see the Boeing corporate officers shrugging their shoulders and defensively saying their job is to protect shareholders’ bottom-line interests. And the shareholders also shrug their shoulders while defensively stating they just collect the dividends and that the big bosses are the ones to make the moral and ethical decisions.
It really does seem there's no human(e) or moral accountability when big profit is involved; nor can there be a sufficiently guilty conscience if the malpractice is continued, business as usual. ‘We are a capitalist nation, after all,’ the morally lame business-as-usual justification typically goes.
Still, there must be a point at which corporate greed thus practice will end up hurting big business’s own monetary interests. Or is the unlimited-profit objective/nature somehow irresistible? It brings to mind the allegorical fox stung by the instinct-abiding scorpion while ferrying it across the river, leaving both to drown.
Great point on the distinction between broken software and broken systems. Another case where what could have been a minor sensor issue cascaded into disaster was Air France 447: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Human_factors_and_computer_interaction
Liked the detailed explanation considering all the facts and publications !!!.
The common yet questionable refrain incredibly still prevails amongst ‘free-market’ capitalist nation governments and corporate circles: It claims that best business practices, including what’s best for consumers, are best decided by business decision-makers. But that has been proven false numerous deadly times with the biggest of businesses, notably Boeing.
The first 737 Max crash was Lion Air Flight 610 [October 29, 2018], and the second was Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 [March 10, 2019], together horrifically killing all 346 people onboard.
The FAA basically rubber stamps the giant Boeing corporation’s new planes, as it did with the flawed 737 Max product, and who-knows-what before and after it.
Our (Canada’s) air-safety regulator seems just as bad: I feel that Canada’s air-safety regulator is just as bad: Following the two catastrophic crashes, Transport Canada deliberately waited for the FAA’s relatively-slow decision to ground the 737 Max planes flown by American carriers before Transport Canada finally acted here. (I can see Donald Trump liking that fact. Kinda 51st-state-ish of our Canuck government.)
The 737 Max atrocity remains most concerning, especially since the disasters were quite preventable but happened essentially due to Boeing corporate profit maximization.
I can see the Boeing corporate officers shrugging their shoulders and defensively saying their job is to protect shareholders’ bottom-line interests. And the shareholders also shrug their shoulders while defensively stating they just collect the dividends and that the big bosses are the ones to make the moral and ethical decisions.
It really does seem there's no human(e) or moral accountability when big profit is involved; nor can there be a sufficiently guilty conscience if the malpractice is continued, business as usual. ‘We are a capitalist nation, after all,’ the morally lame business-as-usual justification typically goes.
Still, there must be a point at which corporate greed thus practice will end up hurting big business’s own monetary interests. Or is the unlimited-profit objective/nature somehow irresistible? It brings to mind the allegorical fox stung by the instinct-abiding scorpion while ferrying it across the river, leaving both to drown.