Originally Posted by
alexbc
True but Boeing is NOT in the business of making money, it's in the business of FLYING people around safely!
This is where you're labouring under a misapprehension. Every company is in business to make money. Their sole purpose is to create wealth for their shareholders. They do it many different ways, from selling coffee to making airplanes, but at the end of the day they exist to make money by selling a product or service that others will pay for.
The only enterprises that don't make money are charities or the government, by definition business have to make money or they can't carry on their business.