By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026Henry Ford thought that he was so rich that he could build Brazilian worker housing whose windows faced the same direction as the worker housing he'd built in Dearborn, Michigan. 1221
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026He literally thought that being rich meant that he could ignore the entire concept of *the Earth's axial tilt* (he was wrong): memex.craphound.com/2010/06/02/f...memex.craphound.comFordlandia: novelistic history of Henry Ford’s doomed midwestern town in the Amazon jungle – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 1230
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026Of course that was the least of Ford's follies. Ford also believed in a secret Jewish conspiracy to control humanity: www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...pbs.orgFord's Anti-Semitism | American Experience | PBSFord lent authority to the anti-Semitic fears and assumptions of many Americans. 1231
