(December 11, 2015 at 3:05 pm)Kingpin Wrote: yes I live very close to the henry Ford museum and have been many times. Most say he invented the MOVING assembly line, but one can reasonable state he innovated the assembly process.
He was like the company BASF slogan. "We don't make the things you use. We make the things you use better."
What they probably don't mention is that he was a rabid anti semite, even writing the pamphlet, the international jew. They probably don't say that there was mutual sympathy between Hitler and Ford, and that a Ford half truck (produced in Germany) was one of the standard vehicles of the Wehrmacht.
They probably do mention that he provided good working conditions, which is true, but they probably leave out that he employed professionals to spy on his worker's private lives and if they didn't rise up to what he considered his moral code, they got fired.
Especially with industrial tycoons, there's always a lot of shadow beneath the light.