What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
28th March 2024
The American Prospect. (blue check member of the Narrative Media)
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. CEO Jim McNerney, who joined Boeing in 2005, had last helmed 3M, where management as he saw it had “overvalued experience and undervalued leadership” before he purged the veterans into early retirement.
‘Neoliberal’ is Narrative-speak for ‘classical liberal’ and pretty much always used incorrectly.