But he was at least competent enough at capitalism to understand that… consumer products… need consumers… who are paid enough
… to be able to buy said products.
Ford saw it as a means of control. He dictates who gets to live in the suburbs, who gets the cushier factory jobs, and who earns the more lavish managerial salaries.
I don’t think his model was strictly intentionally good. It just so happened that baking your consumer base into your workforce guarantees a certain baseline in sales and promises growth that scales with the size of your business.
Fordism is dead
We outsourced all the manufacturing jobs and gutted the service sector
Yep, I was gonna say this.
Ford was a racist piece of shit.
But he was at least competent enough at capitalism to understand that… consumer products… need consumers… who are paid enough … to be able to buy said products.
Ford saw it as a means of control. He dictates who gets to live in the suburbs, who gets the cushier factory jobs, and who earns the more lavish managerial salaries.
I don’t think his model was strictly intentionally good. It just so happened that baking your consumer base into your workforce guarantees a certain baseline in sales and promises growth that scales with the size of your business.
Oh yes, I completely agree with you, it was for him a system of control.
… He was just actually fairly competent at managing that system, unlike our current gaggle of racist rapist reprobates.