I remember this recent story about a train maintenance engineer in the US.<p>He said that regularly his superiors would come to him and tell him that some part X didn't need a maintenance now.<p>He would then ask them to put their initials on the maintenance sheet. Suddenly maintenance was required!<p>If you work for Boeing or other criminal syndication, you need to have a paper/digital trail. Otherwise you'll be the one under the bus.
The banking crisis, VW's diesel-gate, BP's florida oil spills, the list of corporate crimes (not accidents, not whoopsies, but deliberate law breaking) is lengthy. They get away with it. Every time. I don't expect anything different happening this time.
I'm sure it's a sacrifice the CEO is willing to make. He won't be criminally charged of course.<p>I heard there's going to be some positions open soon at Boeing. Any takers?
Dismantling government oversight of corporations is sadly the dream of some under the guise of "small government". I understand why the very wealthy and the corporations do it. I don't understand why average Joes cheer for it. Weak government oversight is going to make every aspect of your life worse. It's going to poison the air you breathe, the water you drink and the food you eat. It's going to make cars less safe. It's going to make air travel less safe.<p>Fines are the cost of doing business. These companies won't change their ways until thee executives responsible end up going to prison (or worse [1]). We have the likes of the Sacklers who became billionaires killing millions. In a just word, every one of them would die penniless in a 6x8' cell.<p>The (political) decision to overturn Chevron last week is going to make all of this worse because the likes of Boeing is going to challenge the authority of the FAA, the FTC and the NTSB in court. It's going to find a friendly judge (likely in Texas, which is built for judge shopping) and argue those agencies don't have the authority to oversee them. Or just to temporarily stay or overrule any decision that goes against them.<p>This is now the world we live in.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes-milk-scandal-pair" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes...</a>