It must be said: Mr Ford created way more wealth in the world than what it destroyed.

For example, the Japanese discovered that importing Ford cars from Japan was cheaper that manufacturing those in Japan, including all the shipping cost.

The same happened in Russia, Germany and most places of the West world.

The new manufacturing method was a revolution that have generated trillions.

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sidewndr46 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> the Japanese discovered that importing Ford cars from Japan was cheaper that manufacturing those in Japan

maybe I just don't understand, but something seems off with this statement?

	▲	Hasslequest an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think what they're getting at here is that it's cheaper for countries to import the car from themselves because you don't have to cover the cost of manufacturing, just the cost of transport (which is low, because you are importing it from yourself).
	▲	sushid 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		to Japan* I think

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lysace 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And now an authoritarian one-party country (I think it's decidedly sliding into a dictatorship) is winning car manufacturing - and possibly almost all of manufacturing except high-end semiconductors and optics.

The future is going to be interesting. :/

	▲	tehjoker 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't buy this but even if it were true, you could say the same if America was winning.

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ProAm 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Still a wild antisemitic so.... money isn't everything.

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jazzyjackson 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Gets undue credit for assembly lines, guns and pocket watches were moving that way too, I wonder what middle school history book publisher cemented his legacy

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elorant 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t understand why you’re downvoted. Hitler considered him an inspiration and praised him in Mein Kampf. Ford funded and published “The Dearborn Independent” which was a newspaper full of libel against Jews. Sure he was a visionary industrialist, but also a vile human being.

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ulfw 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So is Elon Musk and yet he is the richest man on Earth, has meddled in government freely and fanboys still believe every fart that is coming out of him.

He used to be into making cars too but that clearly fell off the wayside

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kakacik 3 hours ago | parent [-]

... and has very little respect here. Some fanboys aren't a guide to amount of respect one deserves, regardless of topic.

I must say he redeemed himself tiny little bit in my eyes when he blocked russian use of starlink in their war in Ukraine, I didn't register any apparent reason apart from stopping murdering of civilians by russians, but thats been happening during whole war in non-trivial numbers. But he also famously sabotaged their naval drones mid attack by disabling all of them during early phase of the war, to not sink half of black sea naval fleet at one go, so... a complicated, highly unreliable person.

I think everybody can easily find deep flaws in him, be them personal or professional (ie he is POS father based on many accounts for example, thats not flying with most parents that know this). Then it matters if folks have firm hard-to-bend moral values or are more flexible with them. Based on experience most people are quite a bit flexible, otherwise they would have to hate themselves too a lot.

	▲	lostlogin 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s deeply average that Musk is improving his behaviour when he stops helping Russia.

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charcircuit 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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jazzyjackson 7 hours ago | parent [-]

buZZER

Sorry, libel against Jewish people is not a different opinion!

	▲	charcircuit 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is not what I said. The gp used the term "antisemitic" which by definition means having a negative opinion on semites. You are looking to argue semantics while I'm trying to answer a question.