The more you read (including the statements and actions of B.) the more you realise that they STILL have not got the point. The Board should have resigned
en masse, months ago. The company will survive because Washington DC neeeds it to survive but few of the parties at the top have yet realised that (almost certainly) the only way to regain confidence is to pay the compensation, scrap the MAX and start again.
This year has shown (yet again) that ...
- enough people inside the company were shouting LOUDLY about the risks long before anyone died.
- those people were ignored because the only thing that mattered was money. And money NOW.
- many companies think themselves more important than their customers.
- the shortcomings of human beings and their ability to think that they are smarter than the preceeding generation.
Think back to other major disasters (such as Titanic) and we can see that humans do not learn from history. They do not listen to their parents or grandparents.
[Sorry S.o.S. thread drift now - but I think it's pertinent]
Which is why, for example, we are soon going to have another truly serious financial crash. That is because the lessons of the last crash (2008) were not learnt and laws put in place to prevent reccurence of 1929 (and other years) have been repealed. Lots of folks have, and are, warning of the problems but they have been ignored. The next financial crash is already built into the system because men did not listen to their parents and think themselves smarter. It is now unavoidable as the sytem will overpower the market and drive it into the ground.