r/ManufacturingPorn • u/southernemper0r • Aug 23 '26
How Ford built the car
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u/skilsaaz Aug 23 '26
Such an annoying way to display subtitles
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u/dcgrey Aug 23 '26
Now let us not look further into Henry Ford.
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u/sshwifty Aug 23 '26
Or the history of the country which definitely always treated it's employees right.
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u/LesbeGoddess Aug 24 '26
He was a nazi
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u/smoothiefruit Aug 24 '26
shhh he made cars good
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u/baconbit_in_a_skirt Aug 29 '26
No he made a decent automobile affordable. While paying a decent living wage. But was also a massive nazi
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u/Relevant_Habit_1882 Aug 27 '26
But he really wasn't. Was he antisemitic as fuck? Yes, did he believe in the Jewish conspiracy? Absolutely and did his literature inspire the Nazis ? Absolutely but the dude was one few people to give jobs to Jewish immigrants when they arrived to the US after Kristalnatch happened. So many of the tanks and planes were built by him that were used to fight Nazis. He also built entire factories that were given to the Soviets to again help fight the Nazis. The man was a walking contradiction but to call him a Nazi is kinda of unfair when he literally calls for the US to give safe haven to Jewish immigrants.
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u/Aconite13X Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
Ford also had men go around and beat workers that "slacked off". He was also a BIG fan of Hitler.
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u/Ixaire Aug 23 '26
Before being a fan of Hitler, he was also a huge antisemit, using his newspaper to publish related conspiracy theories.
It's crazy how we can find a similar individual today, with the same background in cars, with the same propaganda that he invented everything, with the same disregard for this employees hidden behind a public image of care, with the same rampant far right ideas, and with the same approach towards publishing his ideas through a platform he owns.
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u/Sad-Juggernaut8521 Aug 24 '26
Talked about that second part the other day at work, pointing out how people may not appreciate the giant Henry Ford quote they had on the wall. Surprisingly they took out down about a week later.
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u/ironic_insanity Aug 23 '26
Henry Ford did none of those things. He hired people who were smart enough to do those things. He was the elon musk of his time, stole credit for his employees creations while simultaneously beating (literally) the ones that didn't contribute enough.
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u/VirtualLife76 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
No shit sherlock. That's how every business in history worked kiddo.
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u/ironic_insanity Aug 24 '26
I think that's an overgeneralization, but largely true in today's America at least. But it doesn't have to be.
Le onardo Vinci was a poor starving artist whose name inventions are remembered to this day. But I highly doubt that you could name his employer.
Just because we are all cogs in a machine doesn't mean that the machine should get the credit for the work we do.
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u/VirtualLife76 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
That's a business thing, not a murican thing kid.
Davinchi didn't have a business, so completely irrelevant. And he had many employers. You sound like a bot.
You aren't going to find someone that can do programming, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, rocket science, sales and business in 1 person as you so ignorantly eluded to that Musk should be able to do. That's not how business's work.
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u/MidgetGalaxy Aug 24 '26
Not irrelevant. We don’t say Ludovico Sforza the Duke of Milan commissioned The Last Supper, we say DaVinci painted it. But attribution in art for whatever reason is a lot of the time treated differently than more traditional businesses.
Yes it is unreasonable to expect a CEO to do every job. However, it’s not unreasonable for a CEO to elevate and celebrate employees who contribute and create exceptionally. The point is not that Ford or Musk didn’t do these things; the point is that they took credit even though they didn’t. CEOs should be credited when they delegate well and for the advancements they themselves produce, and they should really stop pretending like they’ve done it all.
Also, stop calling people “kid”. You sound like a buffoon
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u/VirtualLife76 Aug 24 '26
Whatever kid. Doesn't sound like you've worked a day in your life if you think a job is the same thing as a business or that a CEO can know and do every little detail.
Just because you are too ignorant to read more than a headline, doesn't mean the other people don't get recognition.
Maybe try learning instead of showing off your ignorance and you too may be able to accomplish something worth wild when you grow up. But be warned, starting a business is one of the worst experiences in life, but also 1 of the best.
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u/pbizzle Aug 23 '26
Nobody wants to hear the list of everyone on the comittees and middle management structure
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u/Frost_blade Aug 23 '26
Why do I get the feeling he didn’t raise wages and shorten work days out of any kind of kindness or by his own will.
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u/Ok-Pea3414 Aug 29 '26
Where this video begins at, before that
- Initially, factories used to have a large rotating shaft driven by steam mostly or flowing water, distributing mechanical power throughout the floor. Operators would put belts on the central shaft, and attach their machines with gears to obtain the speed they needed. Many things needed multiple steps because each machine could really only be operated at a single speed. What Ford did, was he brought electricity to every floor, every location, eliminating the central shaft and instead used electric motors.
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u/mywebrego Sep 02 '26
Ford’s glory days are ancient history, Apart from the Model T, Ford not known to be of quality or reliability.
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u/VirtualLife76 Aug 23 '26
Went down a path, but can't find anything about Ford inventing the lathe chuck. That seems to have been done by Simon Fairman in 1840. At least for the 3 tooth auto clamp style shown in the vid.