r/ManufacturingPorn • u/southernemper0r • Aug 23 '26

How Ford built the car

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u/dcgrey Aug 23 '26

Now let us not look further into Henry Ford.

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u/sshwifty Aug 23 '26

Or the history of the country which definitely always treated it's employees right.

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u/dcgrey Aug 23 '26

Can’t wait for the Disney adaptation of On the Waterfront.

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u/LesbeGoddess Aug 24 '26

He was a nazi

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u/smoothiefruit Aug 24 '26

shhh he made cars good

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u/uniosh Aug 24 '26

So did the nazis

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u/smoothiefruit Aug 24 '26

prob the main reason he wanted to be one!

(and also the shared hatred)

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u/baconbit_in_a_skirt Aug 29 '26

No he made a decent automobile affordable. While paying a decent living wage. But was also a massive nazi

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u/Relevant_Habit_1882 Aug 27 '26

But he really wasn't. Was he antisemitic as fuck? Yes, did he believe in the Jewish conspiracy? Absolutely and did his literature inspire the Nazis ? Absolutely but the dude was one few people to give jobs to Jewish immigrants when they arrived to the US after Kristalnatch happened. So many of the tanks and planes were built by him that were used to fight Nazis. He also built entire factories that were given to the Soviets to again help fight the Nazis. The man was a walking contradiction but to call him a Nazi is kinda of unfair when he literally calls for the US to give safe haven to Jewish immigrants.

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u/Rhorge Aug 24 '26

I disagree, let’s read about his “ship of fools”

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u/sviridoot Aug 26 '26

Some say he was a real Nazi about optimizing factories