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Why is henry ford, who invented assembly line manufacturing along with the first ford automobiles, treated almost as a deity in the world state?

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Ford use of a moving line reduced a car assembly time but this made the work repetitive. So Ford paid workers $5 a day which was a lot. That was more than double the average factory wage at that time. That actually helped America's 20th century middle class took off.
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Because he kept people employees employed through the depression and created the V8 engine. 
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