[CharlesColeman]

> Some people do get a sense of pride and fulfillment out of doing a good job.

But a good job for a CEO is building shareholder value, which is now understood as "[wringing] all the money out of the company that they can [for the shareholders]." That's a different job than building an organization that consistently chooses safety over schedule and cost.

[brink]

That's not a sound long-term plan.

[the_mitsuhiko]

It does not seem this sort of general behavior is punished much even in the long term. It's very hard to compete with Boeing so they can do pretty much anything they want if they would want to.