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My first instinct was to say "Yeah, but Henry Ford wasn't an idiot." But then it occurred to me: We didn't have Twitter back then. He might have just successfully kept his idiocy under wraps. On the other hand, Ford actually did come from humble origins, so I guess it is unlikely that he was as dumb as Musk.
I mean at least ford recognized his employees should be able to afford his product.
Humble origins are not a guarantee of anything. Evidence: I had them as well.
Ford did have his own newspaper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent where he expressed horrible antisemitic views.
He was an antisemite. You have to be pretty dumb to think a small group of people control the world.
They do, but the dumb part is believing it a single ethnicity, rather than a single social class.
That social class is not a small group.
Its millions of people, most of which who have no loyalty and will happily sabotage others in the ruling class to make an extra buck.
Millions of people out of 8 billion is a small group....
Millions of people is never a small group.
Yeah, 0.06% of the population is huge!
This is with 5 million out of 8 billion.
Sure is! Get 5 million people in a room and try to get them to agree how they'd like to control the world.
How many Jews are there in this world?