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It's optimistic to assume they'll even bother finding someone in the company guilty even if it's some low level chump. I don't actually expect anyone to be found guilty in this whole thing. The only time corporations in this country actually suffer repercussions for their actions is when they cost shareholders significant money Enron style.

Just this country? Remember the diesel scandal at VW?

How else will their stock price go up amidst all this controversy lol.

Accountability should be held at the top. If they can benefit from cost cutting that can potentially kill people through negligence, they need to face criminal consequences for doing so.

Only after they lay off the subcontracted QA department

Increase their lobbying budget too

Oh Mr Oliver, thank you for imparting your wisdom.

much like the TSA is

While mostly true, the TSA was also a stealth jobs program for flunkies who couldn't get jobs anywhere else (and to help Bush pump his jobs numbers, which were abysmal). You kind of have to be a motivated fucking idiot to spend every day undermining the fourth amendment and acting like you're doing a service to society. Especially with all the evidence of TSA agents using their authority to just outright steal shit. They're not hiring the best, and everyone knows that they hire the worst of the worst for these jobs, so it's hard to even call it "theater" anymore when everyone sees right through it. Hypernormalization.

Sadly nothing Boeing has done is criminal in the US even though it absolutely should be.

I doubt that you know whether Boeing has or has not broken any laws.

The FAA and the DOJ are not the same as TSA. Not at all.

Yeah thats about the extent of consequences for American corps.

The CEO of Boeing is running for president!

Slap on the wrist? More likely they'll get the Federal Legislature to send in another multi-billion dollar bail-out.

Its a functional state-financed monopoly that isn't owned or operated by the state and gets to charge taxpayers an absurd markup per unit by passing every expenditure through half a dozen shell companies that each get to squeeze out profit on the margins.

But hey, we get the latest in aviation technology, right? Not like they're just churning out lemons that fall apart in midair.

I also took an iPad course.

It's never too late to write your will. Just don't take it with you, leave it with a close reltive.

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Boeing assures you everything is properly debugged. Only known issues is that the engines could explode if the anti-icing is accidentally turned on, but the pilots have got a foolproof plan to avoid killing everyone with the flip of a switch:

Trust me bro.

The likelihood that there will be anything wrong with your flights is minuscule. A hundred thousand planes fly around the Earth every single day and they almost never have any issues.

Nah, the door blowing off the airplane was world news. The 2 Boeing crashes a handful of years ago were world news. It's a massive American company. The writing has been on the wall for a while.

Ummm, it's a long going story which John reported quite late actually

There was a documentary about Boeing that was very detailed and it was largely ignored. Oliver's platform helped get the problem the attention it deserved.