[ExI] QRE: World’s fastest post-Concorde jet goes to first buyer

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: QRE: [ExI] World’s fastest post-Concorde jet goes to first buyer

 

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> Oh there are plenty of good reasons for CEOs to haul their butts around to various factories and such. 

 

>…Are CEO butts so magical that they're worth $80 million?

 

To the CEOs with that kind of money they are.  They have the money, they make the call on what their butts are worth.  Our opinion doesn’t matter.  The guy with the jet doesn’t care what we think.

 

>>… Having a CEO show up and give a pep talk at the factory is better than a zoom call.

 

>…A CEO showing up at a factory will not only interrupt production but likely instigate rumors of mass layoffs and decrease morale not increase it….

 

Meh, doesn’t square with my own experience.  My entire career was at a factory.  Once in a very long while the top guy would show up for a pep talk.  I don’t recall anyone worrying about a mass layoff.

 

>…To each their own, all I know is that before I became "a gentleman of leisure" I never liked it when my boss started looking over my shoulder as I worked.   John K Clark

 

Ja.  Where I worked, the CEO would have no idea what I am doing while I am at my job.  I wouldn’t even be able to easily explain it.  I might say something like: Sir my job is so secret, even I don’t know what I am doing.

 

That was a common line in there.  It sidesteps uncomfortable questions.

 

Regarding luxury jets: John you mentioned a thousand AI trillionaires.  OK we can go with that.  Think of the current situation, zero trillionaires, maybe two guys who could get there in the next few years, but one of them is age 81, so it isn’t clear he will live long enough (he might (Larry looks great.))  But suppose AI creates all this unimaginable wealth, and a thousand trillionaires make nearly all of it.  

 

We have the Bombardier company building the 8k.  What if suddenly there is a hundredfold increase in the demand for those rigs?  Never mind why they want them.  They want them.  They have the money to buy them.  So… we will build them.

 

Just the current market for the B8k is employing people in Ireland, employing people at the former Canadair factory in Quebec, at the aircraft manufacturing facilities of Cessna, Beechcraft and Boeing located in or near Wichita KS, at the aircraft manufacturing plant in Burbank, out at Edwards, in the San Jose area, all those outfits might be trying to crank up production while new factories go in place, probably in Nevada and plenty of other places around the planet once we recognize that of course we need to desalinate water and of course we need enormous power generation capacity to build all this stuff, and of course we need nuclear power plants everywhere.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

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