Why be stuck in past; Think no more GE. It is being broken into its pieces and this is a piece, it is not about raising cash to save GE. Each of the broken off companies will work on its own; everything will still be done. Just by smaller hopefully more efficient companies. Workers at the smaller companies may be better off. Giant conglomerates don't work well today. The return of cash to the guys doing the breaking up is a key factor as to how it goes - they are greedy and it is them first, everyone else 2nd. If they figure out how to get paid a lot of $$ to sell GECAS, they will be very interested in that deal.
There is no good reason for GE to last forever.
I believe that as employees we have as sentimental relationship towards GE, but the reality is that what @X0BfLcM-1jak is true.