Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.
Damn that’s the most relatable thing I’ve heard in a while.
Come to think of it, all the Russiagate stuff is essentially people imagining that Putin is a super genius election hacker when the reality is that we’re doing it to ourselves. There’s a theme here.