[jqpabc123]

Even longer.

American business operates like a feudal system with lords and peasants. Management are the lords and everyone else are the expendable peasants.

Occasionally, the lords are forced to acknowledge that the peasants are just as essential as they are. Without them there is nothing and no one to "lord" over.

This is the abherrent phase that Boeing has just entered. The system will be forced to either return to normal or simply cease to exist a la GE.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Management are the lords and everyone else are the expendable peasants

Boards are the lords. Management without a board seat are the bourgeoisie; Boeing engineers, too. To the degree we have peasants in modern America, it’s in agriculture and retail, not at Boeing.

[spxneo]

I was quite surprised how authoritarian American/Canadian business environments were and subconsciously/covertly racist without saying it outright.

I still vividly remember when I was in my 20s, an American executive from a fortune 500 company forgetting to unmute himself and accidentally unmasking himself and the attitude of those around him.

They were at the forefront of "woke" and "diversity". This is when I learned it was just another slogan like "human rights" to make the citizens feel good about themselves.