Question

The quote below is from Henry Ford in the early 1900s:
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
--Henry Ford
Based on the quote, what conclusion can be made about the United States during the 1900s?

Answer 1

a. The employers of the period were known to pay their workers an inadequate salary.
b. The economic boom of the period would have been impossible without consumers to buy the goods.
c. The consumers of the period scrutinized goods carefully before making a decision to purchase a product.
d. The employees of the period had to learn how to entice consumers in order to run a successful business.

Answer 2

B, Henry Ford produced the Model T which was to be affordable to the average person. Actually Ford paid his employees better than anyone else but required them to abstain from alcohol and tobacco at all times. He had a puritanical view and was extremely anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic.