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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (15724)	4/21/2017 10:07:33 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 365091

Now, that's a different thing. Not really, although I can see how you might want to believe it to be the case. Specifically. I told you at the time it was ridiculous, and that the statement was clearly a marketing statement, not any real suggestion that raising pay enabling his employees to buy more cars would make Ford more profitable. Yes, you did. Because you have this uncanny way of reading the mind of someone who is dead. you'll find your argument was that Ford believed [literally] that he could make money by selling cars to his employees. Of course he could make money selling cars to his employees. It is dumb to argue he couldn't. Ford had geared his plants for mass production, and volume is a key factor in driving costs down. Factor in the economic stimulus of his workers having more money, which he obviously believed by his reaction to the start of the Great Depression, there is really no reason to believe he thought otherwise. Except maybe for your religious beliefs and your faith in being able to read the mind of a dead man. Yes, he did want to retain workers. And he also wanted to breed loyalty among his employees. And he clearly believed that raising the pay of his employees would have an economic stimulus effect. Which would result in him selling more cars. You can put things in caps, italics even bold them. It doesn't change the facts.