It's time to set the cat amongst the aluminium pigeons...

This is the 8x10 colour glossy pictures with the circles and the arrows and the paragraph on the back each one telling how Boeing fell from being the greatest aeroplane maker in the world to the hot mess it is today.

(I grew up in aviation; Kathy and I were both at Boeing when the fit hit the shan - we both left.)

https://themoderatevoice.com/a-boeing-737-max-9-blew-an-escape-hatch-on-friday-heres-how-a-once-great-engineering-company-created-deadly-planes/

#Boeing #Boeing737max #Dreamliner #latestagecapitalism #shareholderprimacy #CorporateBullshit

“Ultimately every quarter the executives at Google meet the board and they need to be reporting up into the right projections on growth and revenue.

Those are the key objectives of shareholder capitalism.

If Sundar [Pichai, Google CEO] went to the board and said:

“Morally we need to leave $10bn on the table. Let Microsoft have this contract,” he’d be fired in an instant.”

- Meredith Whittaker, @signalapp CEO

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/11/signals-meredith-whittaker-these-are-the-people-who-could-actually-pause-ai-if-they-wanted-to

#moralism #shareholdercapitalism #shareholderprimacy