To: harpseal; BMiles2112
"Clearly it does to some extent depend upon product but Boeing in its own self interest should pay a wage sufficient to their employees so they can as a general rulepurchase seats on flights using Boeing aircraft." - harpseal.
So Henry Ford paid his employees enough so that they could afford cab fare? Nice try.
No, Henry Ford's real "stroke of genius" was to use modern production techniques like the automated production line to produce cars cheap enough to be purchased by the average worker. Ford didn't get rich selling his product to his employees, he got rich selling millions of cars to the rest of the country.
To: DugwayDuke
henry Ford was not producing cars he was producing automobiles for the mass market. Boeing is producing planes for the mass market? The model T ford was not the primary cab when it was introduced and horse drawn cabs were really the norm at the time he was coming up with the assemby line production for his automobiles. I note Ford was not the first to introduce assembly line production as this was done in the gun business well before Ford started his business.
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08/12/2003 10:31:20 AM PDT by
harpseal
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