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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The entire factory industry, worldwide, uses the assembly line model invented by Ford, an American company. This system also brought prices down on cars, making them a staple of life rather than a luxury.

Right, but if you have the motivation to make things affordable for people, you can and will get to the same place. The profit motivation and the centralization of wealth are not the key motivators here.

They're just the ones that made Ford rich and famous enough to aggressively publicize himself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The motivation was to make a profit by making them affordable. Efficiency was the key Ford recognized as his means to success. If there is no profitability, he would never have bothered in bucking the current system.

You're putting the cart before the horse.