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The major problem with "slow and steady" is that it is virtually indistinguishable from "we are just going to let the major players get away with it, but we'll toss you a few underlings to keep you placated."
On the Boeing crashes: it could be stuxnet for planes. Pilots are taught to trust their instruments over everything. With computerized, instead of analog gauges, you could convince a pilot to fly his plane right into the ground, or stall it enough so it literally falls out of the sky.