[kurts_mustache]

Why does it seem like the average American doesn't care at all about exactly how much sway corporate interests hold in our government? Boeing's influence on politicians and regulatory agencies is a glaring example. The safety of passengers should come first, but somehow the 737 MAX keeps ending up getting the necessary approvals to carry passengers even after multiple crashes and now the doors falling off.

[PKop]

What could you possibly think average Americans could do about this if they did care? Who says there isn't many of them (like you) that do? What are YOU doing about it?

This is also a lesson of what the nature of government interests and protection of a company can do as much as it is the reverse. If Boeing wasn't so integral to national security and defense, and therefore too big to fail and catered to with defense budgets, maybe it would have failed and changed. It doesn't really have domestic competition. This is state failure and bureaucratic interests as much as corporate.

[Beldin]

> What could you possibly think average Americans could do about this if they did care?

Reach out to their congress-person (and other political representatives) with their worries. If that is hopeless a priori, please abolish the district system (which tends to cause a two-party system) asap and implement something that actually represents the people.

[avalys]

The absolute impact of this situation is pretty minimal, as the reality remains that only two people have died on a US airline flight in the past 15 years.

There’s a lot of outrage in forums like this, where everyone is suddenly an expert on how to regulate extremely complex and expensive aerospace systems, but most people understand the system is still actually working fine.

[starluz]

Mm not what the Boeing whistle blowers said. They decidedly ignored safety fails