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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (20 children)

Unlike a lot of sectors though, Airbus knows what they're doing and is a high profile alternative, and unlike the US, hasn't yet completely internalized our sociopathic greed disease to our degree, despite the global economic pressure we inflict on other nations encouraging them to betray and cause harm to their own societies and citizens if it means an extra nickel of short term private profit.

Don't worry though, the UK has fallen to the greed disease, and our capitalists are bribing and coercing their way eastward, and they won't stop until they either are physically stopped by something like climate change, or successfully make the world forget that Economies are lowly tools that are supposed to exist solely to benefit the people of the society they are a lowly tool for.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Also Boeing is buying back it's fuselage supplier that it originally spun of into it's own business (because it wasn't profitable for Boeing back then).

The problem now is that supplier also makes fuselages for Airbus. So Boeing is gonna be making them for Airbus...

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Oof. Oligopolies/duopolies shouldn't exist, but here we are.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Seriously. These cats put men on the moon with 1960s tech. They bought into the dream. Now it's all stock buybacks and evil.

[–] WordBox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The LLV, specifically.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
[–] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

They don't do widebodies.

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