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> Society designed them that way No it didn't. It just happened that way because it was convenient that way.

• DoreenMichele 9y ago
  http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/01/03/history/post-perspective/ford-doubles-minimum-wage.html http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/01/03/history/post-p... Henry Ford was a big believer in paying his people adequately and was hugely influential on modern America to a degree most people fail to grasp.
  • skookumchuck 9y ago
    Ford found that raising wages reduced turnover and worker shortages, leading to increased profits. I suspect the rest was just reframing it as being generous.
    • DoreenMichele 9y ago
      The fact that creating a middle class improves one's business in no way changes the fact that it was done on purpose and was not some weird freak accident.
      • skookumchuck 9y ago
        He did it explicitly on purpose to improve his business, not for a social agenda.
  • gowld 9y ago
    Henry Ford raised wages, but the long bloody war that unions fought had a much larger influence.