> Ford paid higher wages than the average at the time. Wal-Mart pays
> lower wages than average. Other than corporate bigness I don't see any
> similarities between the two. How is Wal-Mart the new Ford?
Sorry for the ambiguity -- I meant Ford the company, not the man. (Though Ford the man was no saint, of course.) That is, Wal-Mart is being praised as the leading model of a company for today, as the Ford company had that role in the early 20th century.
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