Plenty of people comprehend it, from the JCoS through the GAO.
> If they go down, so does our country. It's that simple.
Sure. The same isn’t true about Boeing going bankrupt. (Bankruptcy doesn’t, like, blow up the factories.)
Part of the system’s vastness is its ability to survive some heads rolling.
Bankruptcy? There's indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt. This is why I'm telling you, nothing significant will happen. Don't be an contrarian, just think about it. "Too Big to Fail", it's a real thing bud.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are literally above those compartments [1].
> No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine
But they do! Not down to every nut and bolt. But we can say that about, like, a modern gaming console.
> indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt
No? Silicon Valley tends to be naïve on how precise bankruptcy can be. Boeing going bankrupt doesn’t mean every supplier fails.
> Don't be an contrarian, just think about it
I assume you’re also personally familiar with the leadership of multiple Boeing suppliers?
I’m not saying that to dismiss you, but to give pause to your thinking anyone who disagrees with you just hasn’t thought.
In a Boeing bankruptcy, roughly $100b of its paper money market cap may be "wiped out" (but for the company to go bankrupt that paper money would have to be worthless anyways), but the factories would keep producing. No "trillions" are on the line, even in that extreme case.
The company and its assets don't just evaporate when some executives go to prison.
If you’re intentionally mis-using the term WMDs your comment is in bad faith.
Anyway i was thinking more along the lines of fighter jets, etc…but then i realized that Lockheed manufactures most of the new advanced jets.
And point taken regarding bombs.
Military industrial complex takes down the USA?
Stop hyperventilating John Oliver’s talking points and look into the numbers.
Each big military contractor is a public company. You can read their detailed financial reports online, for free, right now.
The big ones range from 50B-120B each. At best they all add up to about 1T - absolutely nothing compared to total US wealth.
Yes, but why would they collapse? General Motors also had a web of suppliers when it went bankrupt. Preserving the value of a struggling company while it reörganises is why we invented modern bankruptcy.