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Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest. All large industries wind up worki
by sien 3y ago
Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest.
All large industries wind up working with government. The tech companies didn't have them initially because they were not that big. But now that they are huge of course they work with the US government.
The US government and big business have interests that sometimes converge but to say it's all corporatist is overstating it.
The US government still engages in anti-trust. Companies would sit there and be really annoyed by various actions taken by the US government.
- rufus_foreman 3y ago>> Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest Car companies couldn't produce cars between February, 1942 and October, 1945, because the federal government ordered them to produce weapons instead. There was certainly at least one car company executive that resisted that, he got called a fascist. Free enterprise was completely suspended. 100%.
- parl_match 3y ago> There was certainly at least one car company executive that resisted that, he got called a fascist. That's not really the whole story, lol.
- rufus_foreman 3y agoWhole story of course is longer than that, lol.
- parl_match 3y agoRight, and your simplification is misleading and misrepresents the whole story.
- m463 3y agoDon't understand the point. (not bad considering other countries used involuntary workers during that time period)
- fuzztester 3y ago>Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bennett https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bennett