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Founders #238 · April 1, 2022 · 70m
#238 My Life and Work by Henry Ford
Senra reads Ford's autobiography My Life and Work and finds a man obsessed with one thing: making cars cheap enough for ordinary people. Ford's assembly line was not an efficiency trick — it was a moral mission to democratize mobility.
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Canon
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Ford's assembly line was the most important environment redesign in manufacturing history. By controlling the physical environment (conveyor speed, station layout, tool placement), he controlled worker behavior without giving instructions.
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In 1914, Ford doubled wages to $5/day when the industry standard was $2.34. Every business leader said he was insane. The courage to defy consensus created the American middle class and reduced Ford's turnover from 370% to near zero.
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