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Distribution of wealth is a thing (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago

Anyone who doubts Ford actually believed what he said about paying people well and treating his employees to their share of the profits - look to history.

My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business.

Ford was sued by the Dodge Brothers for not prioritizing shareholder profits over his employees and customers. This is the lawsuit that established "shareholder value" as the only reason a publicly traded company can exist and it is the mechanism behind enshittification.

Ford tried and was forced to stop.

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

TIL Henry Ford was a nazi. But I guess, that explains why Ford is the only American car brand that's widespread in Germany. We like our cars built by nazis.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ehhh. There's problems with Ford but it's hard to call him a Nazi when he literally helped the US war machines problem with making ships quick enough. He helped instruct his future competitors on how to assembly line manufacturer things in order for the is to make ships faster to fight the Nazis.

Maybe just the ultimate capitalists that will sell out his own antisemitic views.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Henry Ford was an executive board member of the ravenously pro - fascist America First Committee. At what point does it become appropriate to accuse someone of being a nazi? Surely, by the time when they are not just avowedly pro-fascism and pro-nazi, but one of the people trying to bring Nazi fascism to the United States, it would be appropriate to call him a Nazi.

As for him building weapons for the USA, like was he just supposed to give those sales to his competitors? Do you understand how capitalism and fascism work together? His ideology doesn't prohibit him from working for the USA.

Check out the podcast Ultra. it's about the old America First movement in the USA

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

Good points. I didn't know about the America First Committee, but it makes sense.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd rather they hold it back so theres no qualms when their bacon gets slapped on the grill. Otherwise you get nearly 100 years of people thinking corporations care.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is how we get bubbles popping where the citizens are the only ones that get hurt. Not the oligarchy, they hoarded wealth offshore.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 day ago

Everyone is already getting hurt. Best to dispell any arguments the bootlickers could have through deceitful charity from the oligarchs.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ford wasn't being nice. He just preempted an incoming wage increase that was going across industries and squeezed as much PR out of it he could.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No one said he was being nice, he was just *not as shitty as the current nazis.

[–] PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

Picturing the character saying this is so funny.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ford paid their employees well because he created a factory that needed competent people, and he couldn't afford those people leaving work all the time.

That line about they affording the cars is bullshit.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

Actually, the opposite. Also, it's good to have your workforce also buying your cars.

Henry Ford was a hard-nosed businessman; he didn't introduce the $5 workday because he was a nice guy, says Bob Kreipke, corporate historian for the Ford Motor Co.

"It was mainly to stabilize the workforce. And it sure did," Kreipke says. "And raised the bar all over the world."

He says to understand why Ford thought this was a smart move in January 1914, you have to go back to another huge shift that happened a few months earlier: By 1913, Model T production totaled 200,000 — a feat made possible by the creation of the first moving assembly line. Conveyor belts transported small parts to workers, each of whom performed a specific task.

This tremendously sped up production, but Ford still had a problem: While he had standardized production, he hadn't standardized his workforce. Now, he didn't need particularly skilled workers; he just needed ones who would do the same repetitive, specialized tasks hour after hour, day after day.

Kreipke says there was chronic absenteeism and lots of worker turnover. So Ford gambled that higher wages would attract better, more reliable workers.

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/267145552/the-middle-class-took-off-100-years-ago-thanks-to-henry-ford

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago

fascism tends to favor corporatism, despite whatever that specific piece of shit did