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Only Marxist morons believed what you just posted. If it wasn't for shareholders and men like Henry Ford, there wouldn't be any Ford motor corp. There wouldn't be any profits, hourly wages, dividends or gross revenue.Ford isn't a parasite and his shareholders are not freeloaders. They make this world function, unlike the real parasites who get checks from the government every month.Ford was clear about many things, including those who produce the surplus must be paid enough to buy what they produce; he also amassed one of the most massive fortunes in history.
HENRY FORD IS FORTUNE'S `BUSINESSMAN OF CENTURY'
"Ford founded the Ford Motor Co. in 1903 at age 40. Five years later, he introduced the Model T, which would remain in production until 1927 as its price actually fell from $850 to $290. In 1913, he adapted the moving assembly line for automotive production and drastically lowered the cost of cars.
When Leftist Socialists aren't badmouthing "big business" and "greedy businessmen" like Henry Ford, they're:
1. Championing the good deeds done by those very same businesses and businessmen,
2. Buying their goods at attractive prices. Why is this?
3. Private businesses continue to give consumers more and more at lower and lower costs. Take flat screen televisions and computers for example. We bought a 31 inch flat screen for $799 years ago. Today it is $199.
We bought the first generation Apple Laser Writer for $10,000 to write and publish a book sold around the world. How much is a high quality printer today?
4. Contrast this with government, which Leftists NEVER get enough of. Taxes go higher and higher and the people get less and less, the exact opposite of the "capitalist" companies they mouthe their hatred for so often but use daily in their own homes.Private businesses exploit the labor that produces their surpluses to generate profit on a scale never before seen; however, those same private businesses are legally structured in such a way as to distribute those profits away from the workers whose labor created the profits and towards the parasites like Ford and Jobs (not to mention their freeloader shareholders) who appropriate those surpluses.Championing the good deeds done by those very same businesses and businessmen,
2. Buying their goods at attractive prices. Why is this?
3. Private businesses continue to give consumers more and more at lower and lower costs. Take flat screen televisions and computers for example. We bought a 31 inch flat screen for $799 years ago. Today it is $199.
We bought the first generation Apple Laser Writer for $10,000
Contrast that business model with worker-self-directed enterprises
Worker Self-Directed Enterprises – A New Way of Thinking About the WorkplaceWhere do shareholders get their checks?Ford isn't a parasite and his shareholders are not freeloaders. They make this world function, unlike the real parasites who get checks from the government every month.
Financial Parasites Have Become Neo-Feudal Landlords
"Classical economics divided income into two types: earned and unearned. Earned income came from productive labor combined with capital investment.
"Unearned income was considered parasitical and consisted of rent, interest and dividends.
"It was not considered as adding to GDP but as subtracting from it.
"It was money made by manipulating money much as feudal landlords made their money in what has been called a rentier economy."
Money made from manipulating money is parasitic, get it?
"a person who always relies on or benefits from other people and gives nothing back"
parasite noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com
The idea that share holders and men like Henry Ford are parasites doesn't pass the laugh test.