To: cripplecreek
Note, as an aside, that that poster continues the pattern of illustrations of early automobiles - they frequently drove on unpaved roads.
Henry Ford developed the means to mass-produce automobiles.
Then, some time later, governments started paving roads.
Government did not, as The Won asserts, start paving roads to make it possible for someone to start mass-producing automobiles.
6 posted on
08/23/2012 6:25:16 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
8 posted on
08/23/2012 6:29:30 AM PDT by
Hodar
(A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
To: DuncanWaring
Proving also that Ford didn’t need roads at all to be a successful manufacturer...the customers came to him and thereby demanded better access to Ford’s product.
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door” - RWEmerson (attr.)
13 posted on
08/23/2012 6:30:37 AM PDT by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
To: DuncanWaring
Ransom Olds=Oldsmobile. Ahead of Ford if I remember correctly.
Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.
23 posted on
08/23/2012 6:49:40 AM PDT by
rktman
To: DuncanWaring
The Won asserts, start paving roads to make it possible for someone to start mass-producing automobiles.
Its cargo cult thinking. The reality is that government should facilitate trade, not attempt to create it. (A clear need must exist)
27 posted on
08/23/2012 6:52:25 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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