Comment by mikewarot

>Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

So they devalued Wisdom, and Elders... and things fell apart. This seems to be a pattern repeated all over the modern world.