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Who from history would you bring back to make them punished for the wrongs that they brought onto the world? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is Henry Ford. He's the catalyst of the 40 hour work week and 5 days a week that has been standard to the present day. Because we're seeing now how little that really does for anyone anymore, where people are having to sacrifice more of their freedom to work second jobs or more hours than they should.

I don't think it's his fault directly for those reasons, but him thinking the 40 hour/5 day a week plan is a good one is just a poor reading into the future with the way it's gone since the establishment.

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[–] gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk 80 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You do know that his 40hours a week was a dramatic reduction in working hours compared to the norm at that time?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. There are a lot of reasons to give Henry Ford shit, but the 40 hour workweek was one of the better things he did.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

he did.

*organized labor forced him to do.

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nope, he did this one himself. The reason? His employees spent so much time at the factory, they didn't have time to actually buy his cars.

Yes, he improved working conditions to make a profit on his cars. A selfish reason, but it inadvertently helped us all.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Poltifact: "Mostly false"

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

He paid his workers well enough that a majority of them could buy his cars?

Productivity reduction(or more likely accidents due to tired workers) might be relevant.