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Who the hell cares what this guy thinks?
Who cares what the CEO of a major Defense contractor thinks about the defense of the continent that company is located in? I'd say a lot of people.
So we should also trust health insurance companies' CEOs' ideas about how health care should be structured? If they are likely to put their company's interest above anything else, then this is a very valid question. And big corporations are notorious for doing exactly this.
Where did I use the word "trust?" Nowhere. I said they have a well-informed opinion on the topic at hand.
The problem is that most people don't trust them to actually inform goverments with their well-informed opinion but with their interests in mind. And if that is a reasonable point of view, then whether or not they have a well-informed opinion becomes irrelevant.
Can we afford not to raise this weapon manufacturers stock price!?
Who said anything about stock price? I sure didn't.
We have to care about the line of the poor billionaire. How can you be so selfish?
As the other commenter said, they don't appear to be the CEO
You're right. He's the Chairman, who in most corporations leads the hiring of the CEO. He's actually higher up. Congrats on being technically correct.
Won’t somebody think of the shareholders!
The Chairman or CEO or whatever of a major defense corporation has a vested stake in what things might affect the defense industry and very likely has a team of people informing him of what is going on geopolitically. This person is someone who probably knows more than you on things like this, so maybe listening to him is worthwhile. We don't have to follow what he says, but hearing what he says is probably a good idea.
Corporations should not set military policy. This is not the US.
Show me where he is setting military policy. I'll wait.
Oh, hang on, he isn't. He is making a public statement about what he thinks politicians should do based on what he observes in his daily work on the job. It's literally the Chairman's job to make public statements about what is best for the industry they work in and what is best for their company.
I mean it is not unimaginable that someone with low moral standards may be exaggerating the risks involved to fear monger governments etc to work with them. It is a general distrust of big corporations that make people here skeptical. If companies like meta, google, tesla etc have no reservations about doing extremely shitty and dodgy things and also able to come out of those with net positive effects, why wouldn't this guy? When someone says "corporations should not set defense policy", they don't actually mean setting it on a governmental level. What they mean is that they should not even be able to inform policies because they are likely putting their interest above other ethical considerations.
So the most informed people should not be able to make public statements because people who make policies might listen to them? That's an insane take.
The question is more the following: can we trust them to use the information available to them honestly or are they more likely to distort or hide facts if it aligns more with their interests. If the latter is a common situation, then that is not an insane take.
Who cares what the chairman of one of two major airplane manufacturers thinks?