'But think of the shareholders.'
Silly me, I always thought there was an element of risk to being a shareholder but perhaps that's so 20th century .
Would you buy a mortgage-backed security, a collateralized debt obligation or any other derivative? No one knows how they work either but they still sell.
But back to the 787. Are their teething problems related to the current dearth of engineers and/or the surfeit of MBA's?