I don't think Boeing killed those guys

A_A, 15 days ago

This is indeed, I believe, an unpopular opinion 😀
What would you say in the future if there was a third guy and then a fourth guy ? I was suspicious when I heard of the first guy and I am more suspicious now there is a second guy. So, I don’t know but if I had to put a number I would say 20% probability they did it. Boeing-boiiingg would have a mafia division.

NeptuneOrbit, 15 days ago

Pretty bad when your business interests align with assassinations, whether they did or not…!

Aurix, 15 days ago

The last person surely hasn’t been a targeted attack as there is quite some medical trail beforehand and poisoning would have been likely found. As for the first person, there might have been no killer, but perhaps psychological pressure.

13esq, 15 days ago

When I heard the second guy died from a combo of influenza b and MRSA, I did immediately think about the logistics of that being a murder.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s definitely not the easiest way, or even a guaranteed way to kill someone.

pixeltree, 15 days ago

Didn’t the first guy literally say he wasn’t going to commit suicide?

ShepherdPie, 14 days ago

That doesn’t really mean anything. You can never see inside someone’s mind. It isn’t abnormal to hear this or have people say the person was “so happy” that day or in days prior.

pixeltree, 14 days ago

Yeah, but when a whistleblower says they aren’t going to commit suicide, that should throw a huge fucking red flag when they die from alleged suicide

shalafi, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

They didn’t kill anybody. The risk/reward calculation is out of the park.

sxan, 15 days ago

Really? Let me introduce you to the Firestone Tire Controversy, where executives knew their tires were responsible in the auto accident deaths; they calculated the cost of doing a recall was more expensive than paying out compensation to families and decided to not do a recall, resulting in even more deaths - until they were finally found out.

Companies will abso-fucking-lutely murder and let/or let people die preventable deaths for profits. Sometimes, executives even go to prison for it (3 confirmed deaths in that case).

I don’t know about the Boeing cases, but I do know you’re naïve if you think executives won’t murder people for profits.

grue, 15 days ago

That’s nothing compared to some of the examples you could’ve given, ranging from various corporations contracting with Pinkertons to attack trade unions, to Coca-Cola assassinating union leaders, to Chiquita and Dole’s various atrocities in central America (which is where the term “banana republic” came from) that included fielding private armies and engaging in multiple coups d’etat.

sxan, 14 days ago

A lot of those examples are murdering foreign nationals, which is far less likely to get them in trouble with US law enforcement. But you’re absolutely right: trying to make an exhaustive list of proven cases of corporations killing or knowingly allowing preventable deaths in favor of profit would require more of a book than a Lemmy comment.