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Ford had some cleverness (I'm not sure I'd give Elon even that) in designing and setting up factories to mass produce inexpensive but adequately reliable for the time cars, when that is exactly what the market of the time and place wanted.

One of his problems was that he thought whatever other notion that crossed through his head was brilliant, when often it was the opposite. This sometimes led to big failures.
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7 May 2023 at 19:40 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.online
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@nazgul
He was against alcohol, spicy food, jazz music, etc and insisted his workers abstain. In the US, factory workers could say "sure" but get away with going downtown when the old man wasn't looking.

However it completely destroyed his grand vision for a huge rubber plantation and factory in the Amazon in Brazil, "Fordlandia".
The rubber would have been hella useful later when sources from Asia were cut off by WWII.
But the Brazilian workers refused Ford's conditions.
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7 May 2023 at 19:48 | Open on mastodon.online
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Also, if it had been up to Henry, Ford Motors would probably have been out of business by the early 1930s due to his obstinateness.

Ford's market share was declining in the 1920s, but Henry insisted their product would remain the Model T, little changed from 1909.

His son pushed hard and repeatedly to finally get a new model introduced in 1927.

7 May 2023 at 20:43 | Open on mastodon.online
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