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Modern Times (w/ Pedro Ángel Rivera Muñoz)

Movies vs. Capitalism

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Henry Ford and the Repetitive Motion Syndrome

The opening scene in the first factory on the assembly line is, you know, it's so perfect. He doesn't want to do that specific kind of work. We call that repetitive motion syndrome nowadays. In case people think it's obsolete, well, he's already addressing what was a real problem back then already because of the assembly line. Henry Ford, by the way, was condecorated by the Nazi army, the Nazi government. That's right. And he's the inventor of theassembly line. Somehow over the course of history, the assembly line got credited to Henry Ford. It wasn't even Ford who introduced the idea at Ford Motors. It was suggested by an employee

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