Re:What really happened at Volkswagen
by LoSboccacc on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:59AM
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no, it's in your quote, Hitler did it /s
that's just some comtext blurb, you're extrapolating too much out of it
>>>> Unprecedented union power, handed over in the 1960s as the price the federal government paid for floating the firm on the stockmarket
Unless I'm missing something, this is roughly 15 years after Hitler disappeared. Or my english skills are truly fading away :-(
>>> He delves into VW’s origins, when Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of a “people’s car”, or Volkswagen in German. VW set up shop in the German countryside. Wolfsburg bred a “headquarters mentality” that insulated the firm from outside influence. Unprecedented union power, handed over in the 1960s as the price the federal government paid for floating the firm on the stockmarket, and the sway of the state of Lower Saxony, which retained a 20% voting stake in the company, gave outside shareholders little say.
So basically, union power and government involvement (and lack of private investors) lead to cheating ?
come on...