[rnk]

I think the idea is that it used to be Boeing didn't have these kinds of problems, they managed themselves and made safer airplanes. At least they appeared safer.

[ratg13]

Boeing made better planes when they had to compete with McDonnell Douglas.

Once they bought them out and became a monopoly that was deemed ‘not a monopoly’ they had room to relax and replaced engineers with finance people.

This is what happens when finance people make aircraft.

[panick21_]

Airbus is much, much stronger competition then Douglas ever was.

[WalterBright]

Airliners have gotten steadily safer over the years and decades. So much safer that we tolerate a much lower rate of errors.

[_teyd]

I think the idea was that capitalism was at fault, so we should go back to whatever variant of the system Boeing operated under when there were less failures. Or else I’m not sure why their conclusion would be that the fix would be to reel in capitalism.