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PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:25 am    Post subject: Fordlandia Reply with quote
Where did the dream go? A land of "boudless opportunity"--without unions! Henry Ford's great failed escape to the jungle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Macintyre-t.html

Ironically, it is Ford's plant in the Amazon that just may be the most automated in the world today. The opportunity came after all.

Raises the question: our great innovators doomed to fail Question
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