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To: TimF who wrote (464583)3/18/2009 11:14:18 AM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1575780
 
Its hard to determine how much that is the real reason since he had a practical reason to want to give his employees higher wages, it allowed him to hire and retain better workers, and also some of the higher wages may have been a premium for working on an assembly line which is more efficient but more boring.

It is a good point; he had at least espoused such a theory, but whether it was his true motivation, who knows...