"Get woke, fall apart into ruin" could be the new "Get woke, go broke."
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Boeing and NASA are worthless.
They probably have to many DEI hires.
Probably got rid of a bunch of those annoying 50-something white guys who actually knew WTF they were doing.
(Disclaimer: 50-something white guy who knows WTF he's doing)
You are closer to the truth than you might realize. I was at retirement age when the CST-100 contract was won by a team in Boeing at Houston, basically leftovers from the International Space Station program. Youngsters. No experience designing / developing a manned space vehicle. A colleague was sent to the program in 2016 and told me at the time that it was essentially Amateur Hour. Probably everyone on board was white or mostly white, but there was no heritage expertise. They were all doing it for the first time.
Top management had lost the bubble when it came to the subject of "Who do we have that can do X?" For them, engineering was water: any bucketful will do. The idea that expertise takes time to accumulate and must be nurtured and preserved was beyond their horizon. This willful ignorance must have percolated down to lower executives and middle management.
Serious engineering screw-ups began earlier at Boeing, with the KC-46 tanker program and the 787 program, when management simply did not heed the senior engineering staff.
Heritage experience for something that bever happened. This generation believes the lie of the last one and they can't duplicate the science fiction.
Lots of examples of lost technology. We can no longer build 16-inch naval cannon. If you don't write everything down (and who does?) and you don't bother to keep the makers employed, then the skill will die out. Not for keeps, but you have to take the time, effort, and money to regain it.
It happened. I worked with people who worked on the Apollo program. It is only a pity you are so stupid as to ignore all the evidence and history. But you pose a worthless challenge, since you are of a generation that had no interest in returning to the Moon and did not pressure Congress to spend the huge sums of money necessary for that. What you don't want to recognize was that NOBODY WANTED TO GO BACK. They were just not that concerned to make your generation happy.
Mcdonald douglass ruined a great company.
The first one they ruined was Douglas. It had its problems, but McDonnell did not solve them. They just rode the horse over the cliff and were snatched out of the air by the merger.
It's unfortunately not just Boeing and not just aerospace engineering.
Ever notice how every new application is poorly designed barely functional crap? It didn't used to be that way.
But you can observe similar issues in virtually every industry and organization - if there are competent people left, they're marginalized and certainly not in charge.
I'm no big user of applications, but I noticed decades ago the discontinuation of user's manuals, replaced with the blythe injunction, "Oh, you'll get the hang of it." I am deeply convinced the reason there are no user's manuals any more is because the people who write the code have no idea how to write them. Think of that. They are "competent" to architect and write code, but have no idea how to explain it to someone who hasn't grown up inside of it. If you don't know what you are doing, there is no telling what faults are buried in what you do.
All in an effort to make things cheaper, lower bottom line. Experienced people cost more. Just like every product we use has been made "cheaper" out of broken plastic junk