TIL - Henry Ford built a failed community called “Fordlândia” in Brazil, he planned it as an industrial utopia.
TIL - Henry Ford built a failed community called “Fordlândia” in Brazil, he planned it as an industrial utopia.
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped them deep into the Amazon rainforest. Workers cut down trees and cleared the land and then they built a rubber plantation in the middle of one of the wi...
Ford was that eras Elon musk. Both are idiots being praised because they have money
Both idolized by Nazis of their times.
I think you’re on to something here
I don't know. Ford was a lot of shitty things. But he was also an actual innovator, not just an investor who thought he was an innovator.
And as egocentric as he was, he still saw the value in providing free healthcare, food, reasonable hours, and good wages to workers.
He was a collosal asshole but I don't think it's fair to compare him to Musk.
I can't be the only who is grateful we didn't end up with a Ford company town.
He did this in at least one other place: Alberta, Michigan
The town would be any colour as long as its black
The inhabitants on the other hand........
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Bookmarking this to read later. Good stuff.
Was this before or after the Indiana Jones movies?
Edit: I'm so sorry. I mixed up Harrison Ford and Henry Ford. Me no spik inglis?
i think they made a book about this
Industrial Utopia sounds like an oxymoron.
It's a utopia for industrialists.