🙂. I knew I'd seen something about that ban....a few weeks ago. I've been waiting for this. (Not to complain, but wtf were they waiting for?!?)
Once the US & its bff Wasrael runs out, that's it. Praying that the Palestinian people (& every other target for our bombs & missiles) can hold on long enough.
The merger went ahead because the major shareholders of Boeing were driven by the profit motive to select MacDonald Douglas management to take over. The disease was present before the merger, time did the rest.
The lie of Capitalism: the world will be better with uncontrolled greed. The truth of Capitalism is monopoly, complacency, and oppression. Boeing is a perfect example of Capitalism: high prices and shoddy products.
Greed is a tool. Like all tools it can be dangerous when used incorrectly. This is why our country is hollowed out. All these scapegoating are just a distractions from the sins of the 1%. Until the billionaires who hollowed out our country are put in jail, we will become another Haiti.
The most profitable weapon under US DOD purchasing policies is one that never makes it into production. The developer gets a guaranteed profit, which because they pad the costs, is actually a far higher profit than they declare to the Pentagon. This is why even after paying outrageous executive packages, funding the golfing and prostitutes' for the Pentagon, loading up off shore accounts for same Pentagon officials, etc., their corporate profit is still much higher than the profit that they are suppose to have per product under US DOD policy. Building a production line actually reduces profit rates because it requires capital, and the more capitals they have to spend, the lower their rate of return. Hence fraud pays best, and the weapon that is never produced never causes embarrassment by being blow out of the air, water, or blown up on land by a "backward" enemy. The profit motive knows no loyalty.
There are always middlemen for base materials, which is why Europe still uses a ton of Russian oil and gas. They just buy it at inflated prices now from other people. Meanwhile, rare earths aren't rare, just dirty. Other sources can't stand stand up immediately, but absent western regulations, they can get going much more quickly than "decades."
Therefore, the steps China has taken re: Boeing will be bigger problems in the cost-competitive civilian market than in the military one. They show that China has moves of its own - even if the past equilibrium was unsustainable and has to go. The Chinese do think ahead, as can be seen by the way they've gutted GM and are turning them into a brand-label for Chinese-made cars. This is another example, greasing the skids for COMAC.
🙂. I knew I'd seen something about that ban....a few weeks ago. I've been waiting for this. (Not to complain, but wtf were they waiting for?!?)
Once the US & its bff Wasrael runs out, that's it. Praying that the Palestinian people (& every other target for our bombs & missiles) can hold on long enough.
Interesting. Boeing started to decline after the MacDonald Douglas merger. The philosophy changed from engineering to finance.
The merger went ahead because the major shareholders of Boeing were driven by the profit motive to select MacDonald Douglas management to take over. The disease was present before the merger, time did the rest.
I think after the last 100 days, most of the Western world's sympathy and empathy quotients are about zero.
Finally, the end of American wars! Now China should cut off anyone trading with Boeing.
The lie of Capitalism: the world will be better with uncontrolled greed. The truth of Capitalism is monopoly, complacency, and oppression. Boeing is a perfect example of Capitalism: high prices and shoddy products.
Building weapons and weapons systems are not just “products”. They are the necessary tools for killing and subjugation of “others”,
Blaming “capitalism” for killing people and asset stripping is too simplistic to have any utility.
Uncontrolled greed is good???
I see your logic — words mean what I say they mean. Like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. Good bye.
Greed is a tool. Like all tools it can be dangerous when used incorrectly. This is why our country is hollowed out. All these scapegoating are just a distractions from the sins of the 1%. Until the billionaires who hollowed out our country are put in jail, we will become another Haiti.
The most profitable weapon under US DOD purchasing policies is one that never makes it into production. The developer gets a guaranteed profit, which because they pad the costs, is actually a far higher profit than they declare to the Pentagon. This is why even after paying outrageous executive packages, funding the golfing and prostitutes' for the Pentagon, loading up off shore accounts for same Pentagon officials, etc., their corporate profit is still much higher than the profit that they are suppose to have per product under US DOD policy. Building a production line actually reduces profit rates because it requires capital, and the more capitals they have to spend, the lower their rate of return. Hence fraud pays best, and the weapon that is never produced never causes embarrassment by being blow out of the air, water, or blown up on land by a "backward" enemy. The profit motive knows no loyalty.
I remember how Boeing staked its entire future on the 747. Those people in 1970 and earlier were real heroes.
There are always middlemen for base materials, which is why Europe still uses a ton of Russian oil and gas. They just buy it at inflated prices now from other people. Meanwhile, rare earths aren't rare, just dirty. Other sources can't stand stand up immediately, but absent western regulations, they can get going much more quickly than "decades."
Therefore, the steps China has taken re: Boeing will be bigger problems in the cost-competitive civilian market than in the military one. They show that China has moves of its own - even if the past equilibrium was unsustainable and has to go. The Chinese do think ahead, as can be seen by the way they've gutted GM and are turning them into a brand-label for Chinese-made cars. This is another example, greasing the skids for COMAC.
Is the baboon shitting his depends yet?