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by JumpCrisscross 722 days ago
> What I see is that the military industrial complex is bigger than anyone (including myself), can comprehend

Plenty of people comprehend it, from the JCoS through the GAO.

> If they go down, so does our country. It's that simple.

Sure. The same isn’t true about Boeing going bankrupt. (Bankruptcy doesn’t, like, blow up the factories.)

Part of the system’s vastness is its ability to survive some heads rolling.
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worldwidelies 722 days ago
You're referring to compartmentalized departments. No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine. This is by design.

Bankruptcy? There's indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt. This is why I'm telling you, nothing significant will happen. Don't be an contrarian, just think about it. "Too Big to Fail", it's a real thing bud.

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n2d4 722 days ago
Bankruptcy means the shareholders and potentially some lenders are wiped out; it doesn't mean the company ceases to exist.

In a Boeing bankruptcy, roughly $100b of its paper money market cap may be "wiped out" (but for the company to go bankrupt that paper money would have to be worthless anyways), but the factories would keep producing. No "trillions" are on the line, even in that extreme case.

The company and its assets don't just evaporate when some executives go to prison.

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JumpCrisscross 722 days ago
> You're referring to compartmentalized departments

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are literally above those compartments [1].

> No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine

But they do! Not down to every nut and bolt. But we can say that about, like, a modern gaming console.

> indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt

No? Silicon Valley tends to be naïve on how precise bankruptcy can be. Boeing going bankrupt doesn’t mean every supplier fails.

> Don't be an contrarian, just think about it

I assume you’re also personally familiar with the leadership of multiple Boeing suppliers?

I’m not saying that to dismiss you, but to give pause to your thinking anyone who disagrees with you just hasn’t thought.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff

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