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Re:Can Ford Turn Itself into a Tech Company? by mywittyname on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:43PM (#15666397)
Probably because of this weird Midwestern attitude towards salaries.

An engineer earning a $250k+ salary is seen as greedy in these parts. You can witness this from Michiganders right here in this thread. There are a few posts here about how $250k is a ridiculous salary in Michigan and is completely unnecessary.

Ford will likely go bankrupt or be acquired if they fail to stay competitive in autonomous vehicle research. Since there's only a handful of people in the world capable of keeping them relevant, these people are worth literally billions of dollars to Ford and trillions to the Michigan/Ohio/Indiana economies.

Ford should have no problem paying these people millions and advertising that fact.

Re:Can Ford Turn Itself into a Tech Company? by curiouscat321 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:55PM (#15666451)
It's decades of unions that have led people to believe that there should be a certain sense of equality when it comes to wages. It's a ridiculous idea in the creative economy.