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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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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.