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2026-11-01

Why Did Henry Ford Double His Workers' Wages? If AI Replaces Every Worker, Who Will Trillion-Dollar Tech Giants Sell To?

[UBI & AI Social Reconstruction · Episode 06] In 1914, Henry Ford shocked Wall Street by doubling his assembly-line workers' pay from $2.34 to $5 a day. It wasn't charity—Ford saw the fatal flaw of industrial capitalism: if the workers making cars cannot afford to buy cars, the factory goes bankrupt. As AI agents and robotics replace millions of white- and blue-collar hours in 2026, who will buy the products of trillion-dollar tech giants if humans have no paychecks?

2026-09-08

No. 12 on the greatest product managers list: Henry Ford — he never said the “faster horses” line, and it gets him backwards

In 1913 Ford hired 50,448 people to hold a workforce of 13,623 — 370% turnover. That same year, build time for a Model T fell from 12 hours 30 minutes to 93 minutes. Those two numbers are the same fact. Ford ranks 12th at 93.80: originality 99 and scale 99 both maxed, taste only 80 — the widest split on the board.