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You're referring to compartmentalized departments. No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine. This is by design. B

You're referring to compartmentalized departments. No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine. This is by design. Bankruptcy? There's indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt. This is why I'm telling you, nothing significant will happen. Don't be an contrarian, just think about it. "Too Big to Fail", it's a real thing bud.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> You're referring to compartmentalized departments The Joint Chiefs of Staff are literally above those compartments [1]. > No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine But they do! Not down to every nut and bolt. But we can say that about, like, a modern gaming console. > indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt No? Silicon Valley tends to be naïve on how precise bankruptcy can be. Boeing going bankrupt doesn’t mean every supplier fails. > Don't be an contrarian, just think about it I assume you’re also personally familiar with the leadership of multiple Boeing suppliers? I’m not saying that to dismiss you, but to give pause to your thinking anyone who disagrees with you just hasn’t thought. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff
- worldwidelies 2y ago
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  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    > want to be pro-war, pro-profit, pro-death & destruction Wat. I said Boeing is comprehensible and able to be held accountable. I also think they should, and will, be criminally charged, and that those charges carry material risk of bankruptcy. You, on the other hand, cast Boeing as a mythical beast unable to be comprehended much less checked. We’re not discussing war and peace. But between those arguments, I’m not sure how you pull off this pivot.
  - beardedwizard 2y ago
    No part of the discussion was even about this. What kind of statement is this to even make? Bizarre.
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n2d4 2y ago
Bankruptcy means the shareholders and potentially some lenders are wiped out; it doesn't mean the company ceases to exist. In a Boeing bankruptcy, roughly $100b of its paper money market cap may be "wiped out" (but for the company to go bankrupt that paper money would have to be worthless anyways), but the factories would keep producing. No "trillions" are on the line, even in that extreme case. The company and its assets don't just evaporate when some executives go to prison.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> You're referring to compartmentalized departments The Joint Chiefs of Staff are literally above those compartments [1]. > No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine But they do! Not down to every nut and bolt. But we can say that about, like, a modern gaming console. > indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt No? Silicon Valley tends to be naïve on how precise bankruptcy can be. Boeing going bankrupt doesn’t mean every supplier fails. > Don't be an contrarian, just think about it I assume you’re also personally familiar with the leadership of multiple Boeing suppliers? I’m not saying that to dismiss you, but to give pause to your thinking anyone who disagrees with you just hasn’t thought. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff

worldwidelies 2y ago
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- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > want to be pro-war, pro-profit, pro-death & destruction Wat. I said Boeing is comprehensible and able to be held accountable. I also think they should, and will, be criminally charged, and that those charges carry material risk of bankruptcy. You, on the other hand, cast Boeing as a mythical beast unable to be comprehended much less checked. We’re not discussing war and peace. But between those arguments, I’m not sure how you pull off this pivot.
- beardedwizard 2y ago
  No part of the discussion was even about this. What kind of statement is this to even make? Bizarre.
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n2d4 2y ago

Bankruptcy means the shareholders and potentially some lenders are wiped out; it doesn't mean the company ceases to exist. In a Boeing bankruptcy, roughly $100b of its paper money market cap may be "wiped out" (but for the company to go bankrupt that paper money would have to be worthless anyways), but the factories would keep producing. No "trillions" are on the line, even in that extreme case. The company and its assets don't just evaporate when some executives go to prison.