Boeing's 737 NG was manufactured using unsafe structural components (2010)

>Boeing cheaper out on the Angle of Attack detector, by default only one is installed, a second one as an added-cost option.

This is incorrect.

The 737 MAX 8 comes with two AoA vanes.

The paid upgrade package is to wire them both into the flight computer, and to add an AoA disagree notification light.

>To be fault-tolerant, you need a quorum and thus a minimum of 3, as Airbus does. I would also add the 3 need to be made by different manufacturers to avoid systemic issues, if disk array manufacturers can do it, so can Boeing for safety-critical equipment.

This is correct, but not infallible. It's really complicated as the last batches of discussion here have gone into great length on.

Boeing fubar'd by not accurately categorizing MCAS as a safety-critical system, as their original classification was "Hazardous" instead of "Catastrophic".

The original implementation had only +/- .6 degrees authority. After the paperwork was filed, they upped the gain to 2.5 degrees up to maximum trim down over time, without reclassifying the subsystem as safety critical. Therefore no-one ever made sure that subsystem chain was bulletproof.

The quoted statement in no ways tells you anything about the relative salaries of Swedish vs “American” employees, because it’s comparing public salaries vs GDP/Capita. The “American” numbers could be twice as good, but if the “American” GDP per capita is 1/4th that would mean the Swedish public employees are still paid twice as much in absolute terms.

Anyways, my usage of the word “American” is in quotes for a good reason. American is almost certainly a typo there and was likely supposed to be Austrian, Austria being the country right below Belgium on that chart.

None of the charts reference the US, and nowhere else is the US mentioned. This is data about European countries.

I could have phrased it differently so apologies if it rubbed you the wrong way, tone doesn't carry on the internet. My point, though, I don't think is unfair. Disparaging government employees by virtue of being government employees is pretty typical in the US where people expect little of their government, though elsewhere that's not always the case. It's not even fair in the US in all cases as you mention. I was pointing out that you disparaged EU government workers for being government workers while simultaneously putting your faith into similarly situated US government workers.

The fairest comparison of salaries would be, to your point, two-fold: ratio of salaries relative to private-sector workers in the same role in the same countries, and PPP-adjusted salaries between countries.