And why?
Among those that I would think deserve consideration are
The British East India Company
Standard Oil
American Telephone and Telegraph
International Business Machines
Krupp
But I don't think the above can really top the world-changing influence of the Ford Motor Corporation. Henry Ford and the organization he took over in 1903 brought the industrial revolution to the masses, changing the lives of billions in the process. From the pace of our lives brought by the acceleration of the assembly line, to the development of the mass consumerist society (not to mention providing individual widespread mobility to hundreds of millions), Ford created a lifestyle revolution far more potent and longer lasting than anything the Communists planted. A man born in 1908 (when the Model T debuted) would see the world changed more in his 75 years than any person earlier in history who lived a comparable span.
"But Mr. Ford, the modern world demands..."
"Young man, I invented the modern world!"
Among those that I would think deserve consideration are
The British East India Company
Standard Oil
American Telephone and Telegraph
International Business Machines
Krupp
But I don't think the above can really top the world-changing influence of the Ford Motor Corporation. Henry Ford and the organization he took over in 1903 brought the industrial revolution to the masses, changing the lives of billions in the process. From the pace of our lives brought by the acceleration of the assembly line, to the development of the mass consumerist society (not to mention providing individual widespread mobility to hundreds of millions), Ford created a lifestyle revolution far more potent and longer lasting than anything the Communists planted. A man born in 1908 (when the Model T debuted) would see the world changed more in his 75 years than any person earlier in history who lived a comparable span.
"But Mr. Ford, the modern world demands..."
"Young man, I invented the modern world!"
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