Oooh I hope in a few years when they go begging we can all agree that if they are too big to fail, they are too big to be a private business.

I don’t like how every news story about the layoffs uncritically parrots the company excuse about the strike, as if decades of regulatory capture, short-term business strategy, and poor engineering and supply chain decisions by successive waves of over-paid executives didn’t sink the company.

That’s about 17,000 people I believe.

Nobody wants to make wide-body airplanes these days.