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I'm holding out some hope that if Boeing stops winning any new space contracts that the next generation of bean counters will learn some kind of lesson about not gutting a company. I'm probably too optimistic.
The thing is they're entwined with the military, eg the X-37, so they probably will keep getting things like that. No other company makes space vehicles for the US that I'm aware of. Maybe Lockheed Martin have some secret stuff, but with space it's incredibly difficult to get things up there and remain unnoticed.
They won't, their options already vested a decade ago.
It's like seeing the light from a star thousands of years ago, they booked the earnings from slashing engineering and nailed their compensation package.
All it taught them was to be careful to get out at the peak.