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TIL the Dodge Brothers sued Henry Ford in 1919 after Ford tried to use his massive profits to increase wages and make car prices more affordable, claiming that a corporation's sole purpose must be to generate profit for shareholders instead of to benefit employees or consumers. They won.

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