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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Oct 2

    When Henry Ford instituted the $5 daily wage he didn't do it because he was a raging progressive.

    9:25 AM - 2 Oct 2018
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      2. T1theinfamous‏ @T1theinfamous Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        He did it to keep his workers from killing him. They knew where he lived.

        2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
      3. Originalism Is Judicial Activism  🏺‏ @GuyDebored Oct 2
        Replying to @T1theinfamous @emptywheel

        Originalism Is Judicial Activism  🏺 Retweeted Originalism Is Judicial Activism  🏺

        👌🏼https://twitter.com/guydebored/status/1047160173670924288?s=21 …

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        Originalism Is Judicial Activism  🏺 @GuyDebored
        Theory: Bezos uses Amazon consumer data to predict human behavior. He knows the Revolution is coming and this wage boost is an effort to avoid the ‘tine. https://twitter.com/matthewcourt/status/1047159119314993152 …
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      1. Mike Carolla‏ @MikeCarolla Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        He literally did it to kneecap union organizers.

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      2. Travis McGee‏ @procrastin Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Excellent point. Same corp model that exists today. They pay more to keep the union out. Control. A bribe actually. Anti-union workers who benefit from labor law have zero clue how collective bargaining protections helps them.

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      3. LilyMunsterFront‏ @bestbeehave Oct 2
        Replying to @procrastin @emptywheel

        Exactly. Some bosses can't see it, but this type of welfare capitalism is at keeping the unions out than all the Pinkertons and propaganda in the world.

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      2. Eclecticity‏ @twistopherrobin Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        And when Kaiser Bill (basically) invented health insurance (an early form of it), it wasn't the health of the masses he was concerned about.

        1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      3. Sar Eire  ✈️ 🏝‏ @sarmcdonnell Oct 2
        Replying to @twistopherrobin @emptywheel

        But he "was a leader of a country" that before it became one, purchased peaceful growth with all employes with universal healthcare. Since then, it's become a mutual first world understanding, healthcare is a mutual right, except in cray cray USA.

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      2. Gritty Loves You‏ @82_and_0 Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        "Untrue. I was there and spoke to Mr. Ford about his decision" - Bernie Sanders

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      3. 866-OUR-VOTE (866 687 8683) vote.org‏ @Kaffe_Takk Oct 2
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      1. impolite and arrogant  🌊‏ @ScoutSwims Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Many workers had to work 20 hour days to make that $5. Every time the assembly line broke down they had to clock out and then clock back in when it was repaired.

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      1. 866-OUR-VOTE (866 687 8683) vote.org‏ @Kaffe_Takk Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @MurbsSox This, and replies. It’s a total anti union move.

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      1. John AF Public‏ @JohnsmcmV1 Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel @SaintSluggo

        Fear of a union can get some of the results of having a union sometimes.

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      1. Nick‏ @getyrtrouserson Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Some industrialists hired Pinkertons. Others built model villages with sanitation but weren't hot on abolishing child labor or granting workers a day off. Neither approach was progressive.

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      1. Spaceface‏ @occasionalities Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Someday folks will realize that ultimately the alternative is givng folks an alternative to hanging the rich from gas station signs and burning down their houses, not that the poor somehow “self deport.”

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      2. Jim. Also, last name‏ @AustinMillb_rge Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Dude funded square dancing to keep the pure bodily fluids off the jazz. Fair point.

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      2. I Got Nothing‏ @schillfactor Oct 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Dodge v. Ford Motor Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co ….

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      3. Allen Cross‏ @allen_cross Oct 2
        Replying to @schillfactor @emptywheel

        Ford's $5 daily wage took effect in January, 1914...nearly 3 years before the Dodge Bros. suit (complaint rec'd. by Ford Nov., 1916).

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      4. I Got Nothing‏ @schillfactor Oct 3
        Replying to @allen_cross @emptywheel

        why did you type those words? I posted to offer some more context to what Ford was about and the forces that worked against him, despite being a captain of industry with compassion for his workers. #businessjudgementrule

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      1. Carl W.‏ @DailyMusicBrk Oct 3
        Replying to @emptywheel

        In some ways he was progressive. He was revolutionary for instance in his hiring of African-Americans and disabled. He also was an antisemite whose neighbor with whom he was friendly and designer of his major plants, including River Rouge, were Jewish. The neighbor was a rabbi.

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