To the Editor:

Re “Boeing C.E.O. Had Warning Before a 2nd Crash” (front page, Oct. 30):

Will we never learn? Or do we just not care enough?

This time it was hundreds of lives snuffed out — not just money lost and lives economically devastated. It is painfully obvious to anyone with an objective eye that Boeing’s executives made deadly decisions with their bottom line as their primary interest.

“The marketplace will self-regulate.” How many times have we heard that nonsense being used as a tactic against government regulation? Enron, Volkswagen, Wells Fargo and Wall Street, ad nauseam.

This will stop when the executives of these companies are prosecuted criminally and, if convicted, imprisoned and fined not with company money but with seizure of their personal assets.