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Actually, in the US, it was the labor unions. They were demanding 8 hour work days as a part of their labor contracts in the.... mid 1800s. In 1868 Congress passed a law so the federal work force worked an 8 hour day. On May 1st, 1886, 80,000 people marched down Michigan Ave in Chicago for an 8 hour work day.

But you can stick with your capitalist fantasy about how "Henry Ford discovered" the 8 hour work day and gifted it to his workers so they could be more productive.

All you are saying is government made a move for it first... It became popularized by Free Market competition. But live in your fantasy land of how it was all Communist ideals.

You missed the part at the beginning where labor unions were demanding it as a part of their contracts by the mid 1800s.

Literally decades before the US government made it the law for federal workers.

So labor unions wanted something and free market competition for it adopted en mass. You're welcome

The problem with using Henry Ford as an argument to delegitmize labor unions is that not every businessman is Henry Ford, just because one businessman paid his workers a livable wage doesn't mean everyone else is going to. Jeff Bezos subjects Amazon workers to all sorts of inhospitable working conditions that cause them to get injured and even punish then for taking a "too long" bathroom break. Many multinational corporations like Coca-Cola even hire private militaries in 3rd world countries where people don't have any sort of basic worker protection laws to murder labor union members. Another reason why Henry Ford paid his workers a livable wage was probably only to make himself look good for he was a notorious antisemite whi even collaborated with nazi germany. The fact that you are portraying labor unions as something only supported by corrupt incompetent democrat politicians even though labor unions are simply only workers negotiating for better treatment really shows that your positions aren't really about opposing government but rather having elitist contempt for the working man.

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Wasn’t he also horribly antisemitic?

Yes, he was a democrat.

Yet the right are renowning him as a "model businessman".

His racial views had nothing to do with his business model

That's not the point, the point is it's hypocritical of Republicans to make it like everything evil is of the left and you lot like to point out that the KKK were democrats but then you renown a certain man who was both a democrat and a notorious antisemite when you want to push a narrative that suits your agenda and ignore the fact that he was a racist democrat. And now you're flip flopping, when someone pointed out he was a notorious antisemite, you then point out that he was a democrat, then I point out it's hypocritical of the right to renown him as a model businessman despite him being both a democrat and a racist and then you flip flop again saying that his business model had nothing to do with his racism. Also he kind of did use his business and wealth to push his antisemite views, he used his wealth to publish antisemite publications such as his newspaper "The Dearborn Independent" and "The International Jew". He even collaborated with nazi Germany and collaborating with nazi germany was probably a convenient business strategy for his company and to push his antisemitic agenda even more.

Ford collaborated with the Soviet Union, too. He liked working with dictators

Yet even more reason to not renown him as a "model businessman" and it's no wonder he would collude with Stalin for Stalin was antisemitic too.

I never called anyone “model. “.and commies are antisemitic even when they’re ethnically Jewish

Why are you talking about communists when no one else even brought them up? Also why are you acting like I have to be convinced not to like commies? I already don't like them for their totalitarian extremist human rights abusing ideology, they are already bad whether they are antisemitic or not.

Just pointing out that The Soviets were commies and they had problems with religion…

Again, you don't have to keep convincing me to not like communists when I already don't and it's also like commies are living rent free in your head for nobody else brought them up but you.

I’m not trying to convince you of anything. It’s a fact.

Yup. I don’t think he cared about race when he was doing business

A pre-New Deal Democrat, that is

He wasn’t advocating for the death of Jews but he was a antisemitic a@@&$#%, but he did some good things

Oh, yeah. For real, Ford gets his own special call out in Mein Kampf. Nazis, when they came to power, awarded him their highest civilian award because of his racist writings.

And he's the reason American children were taught square dancing. He didn't want white kids learning about jazz.