<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>OR: Boeing went through the a series of merger consolidations in aerospace that effectively destroyed their engineering culture, blew up their competition, monopolized their markets, and removed the need to innovate and then when they got caught on their ass by Airbus they made a half-baked airplane that killed hundreds of people.&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mattstoller.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;the-coming-boeing-bailout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mattstoller.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;the-coming-boeing-bailout&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>DuskStar</author><text>I think you misunderstand. We got the 737 Max &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; of competition from Airbus in the form of the A320neo series - otherwise Boeing would have taken a few more years and made a clean-sheet design.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I&amp;#x27;m not saying the 737 Max issues are Airbus&amp;#x27;s fault. I&amp;#x27;m saying that the existence of competition is why we ended up with the quick&amp;amp;dirty stopgap solution instead of a better solution further in the future.</text></item><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>And we got the 737 Max out of it. If we continue to protect Boeing from competition, they&amp;#x27;ll continue to do this.</text></item><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>Boeing has received approximately $90 billion in subsidies since 2000, from local, state and federal sources in the form of taxes, grants, and loan guarantees. [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org&amp;#x2F;parent&amp;#x2F;boeing</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49906815</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bitcharmer</author><text>Somehow your comment reads as if the crashes were Airbus&amp;#x27; and not Boeing&amp;#x27;s fault. Or am I missing something here?</text><parent_chain><item><author>DuskStar</author><text>I think you misunderstand. We got the 737 Max &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; of competition from Airbus in the form of the A320neo series - otherwise Boeing would have taken a few more years and made a clean-sheet design.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I&amp;#x27;m not saying the 737 Max issues are Airbus&amp;#x27;s fault. I&amp;#x27;m saying that the existence of competition is why we ended up with the quick&amp;amp;dirty stopgap solution instead of a better solution further in the future.</text></item><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>And we got the 737 Max out of it. If we continue to protect Boeing from competition, they&amp;#x27;ll continue to do this.</text></item><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>Boeing has received approximately $90 billion in subsidies since 2000, from local, state and federal sources in the form of taxes, grants, and loan guarantees. [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org&amp;#x2F;parent&amp;#x2F;boeing</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49906815</url></story>