Settlement ignored victims input and was contrary to law - https://www.airlinerwatch.com/2022/10/judge-says-737-max-crash-deal-between.html
The 737 Max pain seems to go on and on for Boeing.
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rotorwrench
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FYI: definitely outside my skill set, but you'll find criminal issues and civil tort issues are not the same especially in aviation accidents with political overtones.
I guess it might help if the company has competition. But of course thanks to our heavily regulated airline industry that is largely not the case.
Winthrop
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Well, it is not supposed to help the public. It is supposed to help the government. More specifically, it helps those employed by the government. These fines often get injected directly into the budgets of agencies and can be used for any number of "off budget" expenditures, including travel to conferences and overtime for staff.
Fines are thus often large enough to help a particular office doing the investigation, but not large enough to be putative to a corporation. Indeed the extent to which it punishes anyone, it is the shareholders and consumers.
Winthrop
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These companies compete. They compete for government largess.
Bingo!
Isn’t corporate- government collusion the literal definition of fascism?
In a general sense yes. More specifically I think it is normally defined as government control of privately owned corporations, so as to differentiate it from socialism and communism.
So from the corporations’ standpoint less of a voluntary arrangement and more compulsory. Well if the FBI visiting Zuckerberg and pressuring him not to allow Hunter Biden laptop info on his site was just a friendly suggestion, maybe that’s not fascism.
Winthrop
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All the definitions of "fascism" seem to be tortuous ways to avoid conceding that National Socialism is still just socialism with a different design aesthetic.
Any oppressive regime is going to want to control industry and religion whether it is communist, monarchical, or fascist. Religion is simply less relevant in modern society so the new left can adopt freedom of religion to differentiate itself from its progenitors.
Any oppressive regime is going to want to control industry and religion whether it is communist, monarchical, or fascist. Religion is simply less relevant in modern society so the new left can adopt freedom of religion to differentiate itself from its progenitors.
