> I don't know how many times I've heard the last few days about Wal-Mart
> playing the role that Ford did back in the 1910s, as the leading US
> corporation. If a giant corporation either made or sold condoms for
> shtupping pigs and did it as impressively as Wal-Mart rakes in the
> dough, it would be on the front cover of The Economist, too.
Wasn't Ford famous for paying good wages and equal wages to african americans or am I spouting idealistic apocrypha?