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That's been going on since time began in some form or other. We
need to make the best of our allotted time. Have a good one jmo
Yes and no. Yes obviously in the sense that all companies (especially plant managers) have had pressure to cut corners.
No in the sense of the utter shamelessness of the cheating and the apparent impossibility of holding any of the bigwigs accountable.
Boeing's executives, for example, should have had their cojones sued off by shareholders and should have been held criminally accountable for tolerating or even creating the processes that led to the 737 Max crashes. Instead, one test pilot was indicted for supposedly faking test results. He was acquitted, but probably bankrupted by legal costs.
This is actually vice: business leadership really thinks that squeezing more profit out is the only operating value, no matter the cost to others, and the rest of the elite agrees & sees nothing wrong.