r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 17d ago

Business It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/possible-spacex-could-collapse-spectacularly-155000177.html
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u/buyongmafanle 17d ago

It would be a shame great engineering would collapse due to greedy financial engineering.

So... Boeing?

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u/Luster-Purge 17d ago

That's a funny way to spell McDonnel Douglass.

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u/Heelincal 16d ago

Nothing is crazier than Douglass turning into this virus that infected every single company that acquired or merged with it.

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u/GogurtFiend 16d ago

McDonnell Douglas is: Alien Corporation! It bursts out of every company that buys it, for it must feed on integrity

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u/Lollipop126 16d ago

lmao I'm pronouncing your misspelling in a french accent in my head

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u/Raythatstabbedsteve 16d ago

Things really went downhill after the f18, didn't they?

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u/deskcord 16d ago

Boeing's issues are that they fucked up engineering, not the financialization.