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Originally Posted by The_Rorschach
Henry Ford, by creating a five day work week, the nine hour day, and raising the bar of acceptability for payment of wages, managed to inspire a trend which set the tone for worker's rights which we carry with us even today. By marketing his product, both planes and automobiles, with the average citizen in mind, he set new standards of safety and quality which enriched, and very possibly saved, countless lives*.
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He wasn't so generous during the down times of the Depression. Try reading up on some of the scabs he took in which broke the union lines or some of the thugs he hired to keep picket lines and job seekers away from the doors of his River Rouge Plant. Technical and financial accomplishment notwithstanding, the man on a personal level was an ass.
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Originally Posted by The_Rorschach
He was also a mostly conservative in his outlook, though he did seem to embrace national socialism, or Nazi Facism.
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Try flaming anti-semite who financed a whole paper around his bigotry. He was obsessed with it.