The report included several recommendations, including levying “financial penalties for Boeing’s noncompliance with quality control standards.” The inspector general said, however, that NASA decided not to introduce any kind of financial discipline.

Goddamnit.

The new report said the SLS Block 1B version is likely to cost $5.7 billion by the time it launches.

The assessment is the latest setback for NASA's return-to-the-moon program, which has been beset by holdups and budget overruns. NASA has spent more than $42 billion over more than a decade on its Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft.

Last year, NASA’s inspector general estimated that each Artemis launch would cost $4.2 billion.

Hot take: The government should not give Boeing any more money with which to do stock buybacks, instead of hiring qualified people, and performing the best QA possible.

[–] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't give them any money at all. Private businesses literally should not exist.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Private businesses are not the problem, corporations are.

Venture Capitalism is the problem. When a private business beholdens itself to a stock-price, that stock price becomes the ONLY thing that matters. You keep that stock rising no...matter...what.

Have to use cheap labour? Fuck you...stock price.

Quality Control cuts corners? Fuck you...stock price.

Employees can't afford groceries? Fuck you...stock price.

[–] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The best way to solve this though is through control of the means of production. Can't have this if the business is owned by the state.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or worker co-ops. If workers own their own companies then that would solve 90% of the problems of late stage capitalism

[–] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That too, yeah

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Corruption and perverse incentives are problems that apply to government bureaucracies as well as to companies. Not to say that it can't be done that way successfully, but the failures of the Soviet space program for instance seem to be a clear indication that it isn't a silver bullet in this case. Whatever the underlying economic system there are big organizational challenges to overcome.

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