It all comes down to poor management (aka: greed). C-Suite execs wanted to squeeze as much as they could out of their employees, which isn’t uncommon (no one likes it, but it’s not uncommon). There’s just a huge difference between a $2 usb drive from aliexpress, and a multimillion dollar aircraft carrying hundreds of lives, thousand of feet in the air. This was an issue years ago when Boeing was delivering KC-46 tankers with parts, debris, and tools found in the fuel tanks, I just don’t think anyone could imagine it was going to spread to their civilian aircraft (the hundreds of MCAS related deaths was supposed to be a one off). This company had a reputation built on over 100 years of excellence, and a few greedy a-holes destroyed that in a decade 😐

The good(?) news is, now that it’s out in the open there should be change, and hopefully no one else will die

Edit: If you’re interested Frontline did a piece on Boeing. It’s nowhere near comprehensive, but covers the more recent events