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7. Henry Ford

Henry Ford may best be remembered as the man who single-handedly turned America into a car country. He was also kind of a socialist. He popularized the use of the assembly line, paid his workers an unthinkably high wage for the time (about double the average), he mandated a 40-hour work week, and he paid women the same rate he paid men (starting in 1916, at least). And for all that short-sighted economic stupidity, he also managed to create the world’s most profitable company and still stake a claim to a fortune that would today amount to around $199 billion.

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