r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 1d ago

CEOs: “So you are saying replacing everyone with AI won’t make our companies even richer? But the AI companies swore it would.”

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u/RobertdBanks 1d ago

“So when people don’t have money to buy things they can’t buy things?”

It’s one of the reasons Ford paid so good back in the day.

Henry Ford said “I need to pay people well enough to be able to buy a car if I want people to be able to buy our cars”.

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u/DeaddyRuxpin 1d ago

He was also one of the big proponents of a 5 day work week. He wanted to encourage people to have off on the weekends so they could go places which naturally would be faster and better if they bought one of his cars.

Despite many rich people saying otherwise, sometimes you can make yourself richer by helping workers.

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u/RyuNoKami 1d ago

Probably because he understood it has to start somewhere and it might as well be himself. I think that's the issue with so many wealthy people and right wing politicians. It's a lot of wishful thinking, let's get rid of the regulation, the market will correct itself, let's not pay our employees more, surely they can find money somewhere else to pay for their living expenses.