Most people have always been OK with working reasonable jobs for good pay, though. Work is not the problem. Unchecked greed is.

Depends when and where. Avoid summer or winter vacation. If you’re doing Kyoto, visit temples very early in the day to avoid crowds. Or perhaps find slightly less famous places.

Sure, and if there were discussions of reducing all tourists, that would be great. But it’s just racism. Meh.

I don’t want to spin anything, and I’ve been wrong about a lot, but it’s kind of sad that you went into attack dog mode and then completely overlooked the important details. Please do better.

You keep focusing on how John worked for them 7 years ago and totally ignore the present. People today are worried about Boeing now, and when they want to learn more about how things went wrong, they will look to people who used to work for Boeing. Retired whistleblowers are excellent candidates for talk show TV, YouTube, podcasts. That type of negative exposure could easily turn the general public, lawmakers, government oversight employees, against the company.

Gigantic companies don’t care about wrongful termination lawsuits. That’s chump change. But potentially losing lucrative government contracts, or potentially seeing your executives locked up because now public pressure is strong enough that regulators are forced to investigate, that type of stuff scares the big bosses.

I’m not saying that shady actions happened in this situation. I haven’t looked into it. The police did, and in theory they did a proper job, but we’ve seen the police botch investigations in the past, too. That brings up an interesting tangential issue, which is that when your investigators have a long history of incompetence, it’s harder to rule out conspiracy theories.

Of course he had bombshells to drop. All of the things that he had done through the legal system were done in the hopes of achieving legal victory. When that process ended, the next step would be the court of public opinion. There’s an awfully big difference in impact on the general public versus reading what someone wrote and hearing them talk about it live on TV or the internet. When you can ask them questions and get detailed answers, that adds a greater level of weight to the entire issue.

It’s interesting that you would bring up half of the timeline and ignore the other half. You know, the part where problems happening to airplanes in the very recent past connects with actions that happened 7 years ago. When people want explanations for what’s going wrong now, of course they’re going to want to talk to people who were around when it started to go awry.

And I’m not saying you’re right or wrong about the accuracy of the police investigation. But I do think your analysis of the pressures on him and the current public climate is inaccurate.

“There is not much the US could do.” … I can think of several things the US could easily do that would screw over the Israeli military quickly enough. You can too, so I’m confused why you wrote this.

Allies like Qatar and Saudi Arabia? … But even if there were no US allies in the region, then what?

That’s why the police exist. That’s why they were created. No big surprise here.

Partly true about inviting foreigners. Japan has a trainee visa system that is abusive, as they always are, and is designed so that those employees (victims) never get citizenship. And it’s a single citizenship country, because of course it is. But hey, employers are very willing to bring in those laborers, since it’s cheaper than paying what the law requires.

And you can’t fix demographics with people who only stay for a year or two.

Why would you trust any source, anonymous or otherwise, if you had the option to confirm what they said? … Like here, where we did, where we do.

We already have enough evidence to verify a lot of the horrible things that has happened at these two companies. So what you wrote might be true in some situations, but it has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

My friend, the solution to violence isn’t more violence. At least I hope not.

Did the average American push for genocide? Some did, sure, but what about the others? Some of us have opposed every war in our lifetimes.

I don’t think we can trust your explanation. It might be accurate at this exact moment, but he’s been all over the place on Palestine over the past six months. Who knows what his stance will be six months from now.

Inheritance… In other words, indirect fraud.

Of course different people have different goals. What you say is definitely true for some people in power.

The first casualty of war is truth. The author finally learned that. And then they learned that patriotism is a force for evil, at least often enough that you should fear it. What they didn’t say, and I think they are afraid to admit, is that many political and military leaders will always advocate for continued violence and genocide.

(And this is not a problem specific to Israel. You see this in war zones all over the world.)

Oh, I don’t think you need to add any sugar. Well, if you’re putting it on cereal that’s already sweetened, you definitely don’t need to add any sugar.

Right, but you should try to have a balanced diet anyway. Of course some people have dietary restrictions, but a lot of us would generally benefit by diversifying the types of food that we cook with.

That depends on your school, and when you went there. Many of us did not learn any of this.

The article runs away from the funding issue. If this event wasn’t paid with tax dollars, that’s just a spreadsheet manipulation tactic, presumably done after the fact when they realized they were busted for being sleazebags.