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

A Boeing 737 MAX 9 blew an escape hatch on Friday. Here's how a once-great engineering company created deadly planes. – The Moderate Voice

Boeing no longer makes “amazing flying machines.” Ethical blight lives at the heart of a once pioneering engineering company.

“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

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to’

The Guardian
The #CEO of #NorfolkSouthern testified they would “make it right” concerning #EastPalestine. A followup question wasn’t asked - Make it right for who? Under the theory of #ShareholderPrimacy “corporations have no higher purpose than maximizing profits for their shareholders”. This is the way they currently operate. The CEO is obligated to protect shareholders first. The people of Palestine and the employees do not factor into the equation. They will do the least they can, to protect shareholders