[Quote] Toni Morrison on freedom and power

I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.’

– Toni Morrison (via)

The emerging 737 Max scandal, explained →

A good analysis and explanation of what went on behind the scenes that resulted in the recent Boeing 737 Max debacles.

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The nature of the airline industry is such that there’s no real money to be made selling airplanes that have a poor safety track record. One could even imagine sketching out a utopian libertarian argument to the effect that there’s no real need for a government role in certifying new airplanes at all, precisely because there’s no reason to think it’s profitable to make unsafe ones.