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DENVERPOPS

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9. The "classic" Henry Ford story is only part of the story.......

Reply to Auggie (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 23, 2025, 08:25 PM

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evidently the stockholders came after him because the job he was hired to do was purely to create maximum stock holder value and not reward the workers any more than absolutely necessary, like the other car manufacturers at that time were doing....

Not at all unlike it is today.......

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