There's no cure though. You can't fix organizations infested with politicians. They're too entrenched. They have an advantage: you, rare competent person, have to focus on both the engineering and the organizational dynamics, whereas these creatures, since they don't believe in world of atoms outcomes, can spend 100% of their time on schemes and on getting rid of gadfly types like you.
Progress depends on creative destruction, not internal reform. The only way we maintain or advance quality as a society is to enable the continual creation of new institutions to compete with sclerotic and terminally politician-infested ones.
When you artificially prop up the latter, you curtail progress overall.
So, would you prefer the space division of Boeing to crash and burn, and be replaced with something else entirely? Where would it come from? What to do with other important Boeing space contracts, like, say, X-37?
Progress depends on creative destruction, not internal reform. The only way we maintain or advance quality as a society is to enable the continual creation of new institutions to compete with sclerotic and terminally politician-infested ones.
When you artificially prop up the latter, you curtail progress overall.