If we left it to the insurance companies, they would probably identify the cost savings of killing off the elderly and be done with it

You write that as if it is hypothetical.

To fight back against such a thing, you can also adopt the method of talking in a booming voice in conference calls. Most of those execs will likely decide to shut their damn doors so they don't have to hear it, and then you can go back to being a quieter neighbor.

I worked in a place where a cubicle near mine was a 'swing' cubicle used by visiting sales staff. Guess what? Visiting salespeople also tend to be on the phone a lot, talking in booming voices. My solution was to buy cheap drumsticks for me and my coworkers, and we would begin impromptu desktop drumming sessions that we characterized as "brainstorming sessions".

If mankind only succeeds in such a disruption by protected minorities putting forward their own absurd concepts against it, then the result is nevertheless favourable.

The downside is that would expand the concept that protected minorities have some kind of superior claims on random public property. That's a very slippery slope, and really should not be indulged because it has no end. Okay, sure, the land you lived on "since forever" is your ancestral land and not for public consumption, but random shit that you can see in the distance is not.

But it would look pretty funny if you shaved them, and you had bare bear arms.

...hedge fund manager/prominent Harvard donor Bill Ackman

Money.

Yeah. It's got to be a shitty place to work, for many of the technical staff.

I'm with you on most of that, but we have to recognize that Boeing themselves apparently found the issue:

...after Boeing discovered a defect in the system with potentially catastrophic consequences.

The testers seem to be doing their jobs. It seems to be bean-counters or someone who wants to ignore the problem.

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