One Way Of Thinking About It

Henry Ford – who was generally an asshole, promoted anti-semitism, and didn’t noticeably  give a fuck about his workers’ welfare – was smart enough to realize that he would make money if his workers could buy his cars: they would buy and they would encourage their friends to buy.

Ford’s current-day spiritual descendants are not only not that smart, they lack Ford’s accomplishments. So how useless are they?