Oh, Mr. Ford doesn’t mind if you row your little dinghy to your daily job scrubbing and polishing his yacht. Especially if he paid for his yacht by selling dinghies!
The more dinghies he sells - which are made not by him but by your neighbors, who row them every day to work in his dinghy factory - the bigger yacht he can buy for you to scrub and polish.
But as soon as everybody owns a yacht, who’s going to want to scrub and polish Mr. Ford’s? Or work in his dinghy factory?
Mass production is not a bad thing. But Ford, Morgan, et al used it to destroy the independent livelihood and get us all working in the dinghy factories so they could live off our labor - much the same way the banksters got us in debt so they can live off the interest we pay, and thereby give capitalism a bad name.
(Ever notice how “economic health” indicators are things like housing starts, durable goods purchases, etc? - things that consumers pay interest on.)
False conclusion. Mass production was inevitable. Ford didn't care about destroying independent livelihoods. He simply needed people to build his cars. And obviously not everyone worked in the "dinghy factories." How else would you suggest we could have gone about making cars or other "dinghies"? I would argue mass production and the resultant huge amounts of wealth created allowed for more people to establish their own independent livelihoods.
You’re right. We’d all be much wealthier and living happier lives with more consumer goods if everything we bought were made by individual artisans and we didn’t have interchangeable parts and those horrible assembly lines. How foolish of humans to reorder their economic systems and lives for higher productivity and reduced costs.
This is such a foolish, immature, and ridiculous worldview that it is consigned to all he other little crackpot global warming conspiracy theories, and dinghy pretty wheel describes its intellectual content.