History

In 1908 Henry Ford’s Model T really introduced and marked the beginning of the age of mass transportation on a scale previously unprecedented. Affordable, easy to operate compared to other cars at the time and one of the first cars meant to be mass produced from the ground up

Hard to understand how impactful it was

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It’s hard to imagine a world where freeways didn’t exist, highways didn’t exist, gas stations didn’t exist, suburbia especially in the United States didn’t exist. Los Angeles was mostly a railway city. But that was the world in 1908 - it was very different and not meant for or friendly for cars

Another interesting thing was it was one of the first mass-produced cars in the world. Mass-produce meant that a bunch of individuals would work as a team producing one part over and over again in a row. All these parts together would come together and be assembled in an assembly line together. This was how it worked.

The problem was that this was quite monotonous. And so after a while many of the workers started quitting in the Tran rate was really high. So Henry Ford actually did something that was unprecedented. He raise the minimum wage for $5/hr which at the time was completely unheard of. For context, one of his cars cost $280

Strategically doubling his wage to five dollars an hour for all his employees in 1914 really changed the approach to how much  employees should be paid, eventually his employees themselves would be purchasers of the cars that they were producing themselves; many did 

it kick started the car having middle class