[Jeff Higgins]

There are far, far easier ways to make money than to try to do it by making jet airplanes. One has to be truly enamored to even consider such a proposition, to risk everything to build such an enterprise.

In sharp contrast, it is extremely attractive to take over a company that does such things, that has been built by generations of people who truly believe in what they are doing, and milk it dry. No risk whatsoever. Guaranteed salary, ludicrous "bonuses", obscene severance packages. That is what we are seeing at Boeing. And, well, unfortunately, too many similar legacy companies, built over generations of risk and genuine commitment to something in which they believe.