Here you go, Evan

[3WE]

WSJ 22.02.2024

[Evan]

The wrong man.

[Evan]

The prevailing sentiment in the aftermath of disturbing revelations about Boeing's warped priorities and leadership is that Boeing lost its way and needs to place their company back in the hands of engineers. This is a very revolutionary sentiment in the age of late-stage capitalism, where wealth has not just concentrated in the wrong hands, decision-making has as well. It is simply the new normal that investor-class morons are entitled to make complex decisions that determine our safety and our futures. And they consistently, instinctively, navigate those decisions with a single criteria in mind: market capitalization: private wealth for the investor class. All other concerns are dismissed.

Boeing did this and got a lot of people killed. They also killed their brand. AI start-ups and big tech firms embracing AI are now taking us down a similar path, one that will cripple our humanity, displace many highly-skilled people, and have vast predictable and unpredictable consequences. This is of no concern to them either. Crypto currencies will help thwart our efforts to transition to clean energy in time to mitigate a looming climate disaster, while facilitating organized crime. Not even an issue.

There's estates to be acquired, private jets, supercars and powerboats to enjoy, watches and jewelry to furnish oneself with, queues to skip, elite colleges to short list, free-market legislators to purchase, exclusive private worlds to attend and a coming dystopia to provision against. Squirrel away vast fortunes. That is of their concern.

So what can be done when a nation they thought was sound asleep in front of the plasma screen suddenly wakes up to their negligence and indifference, begins to recognize it as an existential threat to themselves? Does one atone for it? Does one change one's ways? Does one punish and rehabilitate one's fellow sybarites and relinquish control to the engineers, the creators, the artisans who made it all possible and who are best equipped to make sound decisions?

Or does one go to the tower and toss over a sacrificial offering, fenestrate a mandarin director-level engineer over the ramparts and hope that this makes the masses feel heard, makes them feel vindicated?

Yes, we'll go with that, say the morons making our decisions.

Meanwhile, those responsible cannot be reached because they are busy enjoying the spoils from raiding Boeing and squeezing the last drop of respectability from the brand into their drunken, insatiable mouths.

Nothing is fixed.

[TeeVee]

i gotta call you out on one thing: plasma tv's have been dead for a long time.

aside from that, well said!

[Evan]

i gotta call you out on one thing: plasma tv's have been dead for a long time.

aside from that, well said!

Ah, didn’t know that. I don’t have a TV, TeeVee.

[ATLcrew]

The prevailing sentiment in the aftermath of disturbing revelations about Boeing's warped priorities and leadership is that Boeing lost its way and needs to place their company back in the hands of engineers. This is a very revolutionary sentiment in the age of late-stage capitalism, where wealth has not just concentrated in the wrong hands, decision-making has as well. It is simply the new normal that investor-class morons are entitled to make complex decisions that determine our safety and our futures. And they consistently, instinctively, navigate those decisions with a single criteria in mind: market capitalization: private wealth for the investor class. All other concerns are dismissed.

Boeing did this and got a lot of people killed. They also killed their brand. AI start-ups and big tech firms embracing AI are now taking us down a similar path, one that will cripple our humanity, displace many highly-skilled people, and have vast predictable and unpredictable consequences. This is of no concern to them either. Crypto currencies will help thwart our efforts to transition to clean energy in time to mitigate a looming climate disaster, while facilitating organized crime. Not even an issue.

There's estates to be acquired, private jets, supercars and powerboats to enjoy, watches and jewelry to furnish oneself with, queues to skip, elite colleges to short list, free-market legislators to purchase, exclusive private worlds to attend and a coming dystopia to provision against. Squirrel away vast fortunes. That is of their concern.

So what can be done when a nation they thought was sound asleep in front of the plasma screen suddenly wakes up to their negligence and indifference, begins to recognize it as an existential threat to themselves? Does one atone for it? Does one change one's ways? Does one punish and rehabilitate one's fellow sybarites and relinquish control to the engineers, the creators, the artisans who made it all possible and who are best equipped to make sound decisions?

Or does one go to the tower and toss over a sacrificial offering, fenestrate a mandarin director-level engineer over the ramparts and hope that this makes the masses feel heard, makes them feel vindicated?

Yes, we'll go with that, say the morons making our decisions.

Meanwhile, those responsible cannot be reached because they are busy enjoying the spoils from raiding Boeing and squeezing the last drop of respectability from the brand into their drunken, insatiable mouths.

Nothing is fixed.

I feel like you're the type of person who at least occasionally stands in front of a mirror, listens to his own fiery speeches, and finds himself in bewildered awe and immense gratitude of and for his own existence and awesomeness.

[BoeingBobby]

I feel like you're the type of person who at least occasionally stands in front of a mirror, listens to his own fiery speeches, and finds himself in bewildered awe and immense gratitude of and for his own existence and awesomeness.

Sounds just like a guy running for President! 😜

[Evan]

I feel like you're the type of person who at least occasionally stands in front of a mirror, listens to his own fiery speeches, and finds himself in bewildered awe and immense gratitude of and for his own existence and awesomeness.

No I'm just at my wits end with this. Sorry about the screed. I know how reticent pilots can be. But thus far Boeing has addressed its own downfall by scapegoating two engineers and zero c-suite executives. So tell yourself that in front of the mirror and see if it causes some tinge of frustration.

[Gabriel]

But thus far Boeing has addressed its own downfall by scapegoating two engineers and zero c-suite executives.

Not to mention striking that no-execs-will-be-prosecuted sweet deal with the prosecutor who immediately after signing the sweet deal became an associate with the law firm that represented Boeing in said sweet deal.

[3WE]

I feel like you're the type of person who at least occasionally stands in front of a mirror, in his sterile, bicycle-less bubble and listens to his own fiery speeches, and finds himself in bewildered awe and immense gratitude of and for his own existence and awesomeness.

Fixed.

[Evan]

Not to mention striking that no-execs-will-be-prosecuted sweet deal with the prosecutor who immediately after signing the sweet deal became an associate with the law firm that represented Boeing in said sweet deal.

Not to mention that.

[3WE]

[flashcrash]

Awesome. That'll help!

[Evan]

Well, obviously the resort wasn't working. The only thing retreating is the stock price.

[Gabriel]

The only thing retreating is the stock price.

Not true!
Plug doors are retreating too. And bolts. And nuts. And quality control.