In a sensible society, would any aircraft builder conspire to defraud a supervisory body, thereby putting human life at risk? This is just what Boeing has admitted to recently in relation to its 737 Max aeroplane, resulting in the deaths of 346 passengers and crew.
And of course Boeing’s fraudulent behaviour isn’t a one-off. Think Volkswagen, with its falsified pollution figures. Think Arconic (and others), which knowingly supplied dangerously combustible cladding for Grenfell Tower. Or the decades-long conspiracy of silence/denial around cancer by the entire tobacco industry.
Plainly, these are ‘outliers’, abnormal occurrences of a system driven by the need to maximise profits, yet they are one more reason for working to end that system.
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