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Stargazer99

(2,585 posts)
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 09:19 AM Mar 29

A Japanese company has killed with its product and how many American companies

have maimed or killed-business is worshiped like a god; Boeing killed over 400 people with their 737 that their engineer told them it was not safe to fly-but you know the big-wigs paid no attention to him, in fact took him off the project but you never hear about that do you? Business manipulates and there is no control over it. The man who was a whistle blower on Boeings recently "committed suicide" and he had told a friend that if he ended up dead it wasn't suicide. When did business become a god where they could kill and maim people and not be held accountable? Oh, I forgot business is a god.

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A Japanese company has killed with its product and how many American companies (Original Post) Stargazer99 Mar 29 OP
You start out with "A Japanese company" Ferrets are Cool Mar 29 #1
Mitsubishi. They built that "Zero" you've heard so much about. From those wonderful folks who gave you Pearl Harbor: mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 #2
Dude! ruet Mar 29 #10
Bitter much? Ferrets are Cool Mar 29 #13
Okay..... Happy Hoosier Mar 29 #3
You mean Kobayashi Pharma supplement deaths? betsuni Mar 29 #4
Yeah, that's what I thought, too oregonjen Mar 29 #6
It's cheaper for them to just crash every so often. Oneironaut Mar 29 #5
That's absolute hogwash. nt Phoenix61 Mar 29 #11
cheers Celerity Mar 29 #12
Everything should be perfectly safe or just not made. Progressive dog Mar 29 #7
Then you're not going to have anything. NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 #8
That was the point I wanted to make. Progressive dog Mar 29 #9

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,489 posts)
2. Mitsubishi. They built that "Zero" you've heard so much about. From those wonderful folks who gave you Pearl Harbor:
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 10:03 AM
Mar 29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero

Good luck tracking down that "Boeing engineer who was taken off the project by the big-wigs." He's on a par with that big tough general who never cries, but this time he did, when he burst into tears upon having to tell Trump, "Sir, we have no ammunition. Obama sold it all to China."

Happy Hoosier

(7,314 posts)
3. Okay.....
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 10:21 AM
Mar 29

..... that was some words.

I think Boeing needs to some steering correction, but people are, IMHO, WAY overreacting to the Boeing situation. Airline accidents are big news and scary, but remain an extremely small risk. Commercial airline safety remains near record highs. I think lots of folks let the emotion of thing outweigh the actual data. Ya wanna save lives? Auto accidents kill about 43,000 people a year. Airliners are vastly safer than driving, despite the fact that airline incidents gets lots of press and trigger a lot of fears.

Oneironaut

(5,504 posts)
5. It's cheaper for them to just crash every so often.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 10:39 AM
Mar 29

They’re willing to risk fatal accents every so often with reduced maintenance because it helps their bottom line.

Let’s say you have a fatal planet crash every 5 years, and pay out $20 million because of it. However, maintenance over those 5 years would cost an extra $100 million. That’s a no brainer for sociopathic executives.

Progressive dog

(6,905 posts)
7. Everything should be perfectly safe or just not made.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 11:11 AM
Mar 29

About 43,000 deaths per year in USA and I'll bet a lot of those deaths could have been prevented with more and better maintained roads and bridges. I think most of those roads and bridges along with traffic rules and enforcement are not responsibilities of auto manufacturers.
I've actually never thought of businesses being worshiped like gods, more like despised like satan.

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