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  • Anyone who doubts Ford actually believed what he said about paying people well and treating his employees to their share of the profits - look to history.

    My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business.

    Ford was sued by the Dodge Brothers for not prioritizing shareholder profits over his employees and customers. This is the lawsuit that established “shareholder value” as the only reason a publicly traded company can exist and it is the mechanism behind enshittification.

    Ford tried and was forced to stop.














  • Actually, under Kamala the neoliberal policies were strangling American and working class finances. Trump is a smash and grab that will bring the system down on top of it and have a solid 5 years of rebuilding. He’s guaranteed progressive policies stick out as unique and different from the normal capital forward ideals of the 20th century.

    Both would have caused suffering but Trump is the change to the system that people need. I hate him but can’t deny he has galvanized the country against him and highlighted how corrupt and complicit the news media is in helping these events gain momentum.

    The right may have hated their vegetables but they are choking on their meal and we could all die together but if we don’t then we will have a lot better experience on how to move forward. Like post Nazi Germany. The country is still around. The people are still around. The society is still around. The embarrassment of the 1930s is not. America will follow suit and eventually be ok.