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I don't think Henry Ford realized that he was paving the way for Socialism when he created the middle class...
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Since when?  Is this some type of algorian citation?
The idea of what was/is middle class has changed many times throughout history and goes back much farther than Henry Ford. However, Henry Ford and America's industrial revolutionary period are considered by historians to have been instrumental in creating America's second middle class - a shift from the previous agrarian middle class to an industrial middle class - which shifted yet again post-WW2 to the more recent service worker based third American middle class. As to the future...who can say.
And so it goes...
Richard's $.02 
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