Economics: About DEI And Boeing

(Drivebycuriosity) -   Two issues appear on my radar these days: DEI and Boeing. DEI is they acronym for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It means that employees are not (at least not primarily) hired, payed and promoted by their merits. High work ethic, diligence and the will to work continuously and thoroughly are less important. Instead employees are chosen and treated by criteria like diversity (meaning race), equity and inclusion.  

This brings me to Boeing. The airplane producer has a lot problems. The most recent: "The Federal Aviation Administration has temporarily grounded some Boeing 737 Max 9 jets pending safety inspections, after a “door plug” panel blew off the body of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in midair on Friday, Jan. 5, forcing an emergency landing in Portland (pbs.org ). Shortly before this incident the company had admitted that their 737 Max  might "loose bolts in the rudder control system" (abcnews ). In 2018 & 2019 already 2 Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed, killing hundreds of people (reuters ).

Elon Musk claimed that Boeing´s safety problems are caused by DEI: "Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That is actually happening" (twitter).

Musk is right. Boeing follows DEI and displays that proudly on their website (image above  boeing.com ). Boeing`s DEI policy implies that the corporation cares less about work ethic & diligence. At Boeing the will to work continuously and thoroughly does not have priority anymore. More important are diversity, equity and inclusion.

 

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Boeing´s DEI politics explain their safety problems. Imagine a worker notices that others are preferred even if they work less thoroughly because they fit into Boeing´s DEI concept. A diligent worker loses the initiative to work with the highest accurateness when this counts less. Why should he/she care anymore? Boeing`s woke policy discourages diligence & accurateness and opens the door for sloppiness and carelessness. No wonder that Boeing`s planes have a safety issue.

Boeing´s quality problems are also the consequence of Biden`s pro-labor and pro-union politics, which encourage preference for "underserved communities" and make it more difficult to enforce diligence and to discipline workers who are sloppy and careless. 

If Boeing would just be a bread factory then their DEI commitment would not do much harm. If their pastries would become inferior, they would go out of business. But when Boeing`s air planes are inferior and parts of them fall from the sky, it is a huge problem. Who wants to risk his live in a Boeing machine?

I would be not surprised if airlines in Europe, Asia, Latin America & Africa, who are not responsible to the Biden government, will purchase fewer Boeing planes and chose Europe`s Airbus or Chinese machines instead. Who needs woke Boeing anymore?

 

P.S. And it is even getting worse

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