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Originally Posted by HushMoney
good article
"In 1914, a business executive named Henry Ford did a startling thing: He announced that he was going to more than double the wages he was paying his employees, from $2.34 to $5 a day -- the equivalent of $120 a day in today's money........"
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It won't fly today because many of the rich Republicans currently doing everything they can to dominate sell things we need (Koch brothers) or made their money by borrowing and pushing money around. Think Romney ... Bain made a lot of money off management fees... what happened to the companies didn't matter.
Henry Ford was selling something people wanted, so he saw the value in paying more (and hopefully getting others to) so that people had disposable income to buy what he was selling.
During the teen's you still had small towns with everything you needed where a car wasn't necessary like they are now.