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3 pages in length. Preston Tucker is a lesson of progressive thinking amidst conglomerate control. Not only was this man of grand ideas thrust into the proverbial lion's den when he single-handedly sought to revolutionize the automobile industry, but he - and his vision of seat belts, first-rate design, multi-directional headlights, good gas mileage and pop-out windshields - were systematically deconstructed piece by agonizing piece until he was no longer mentally or economically able to fight against the oppressive nature of big business. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the automobile industry, but he - and his vision of seat belts, first-rate design, multi-directional headlights, good gas mileage and pop-out windshields (Truett, 2006) - were systematically deconstructed piece by
agonizing piece until he was no longer mentally or economically able to fight against the oppressive nature of big business. The difference between being an entrepreneur in the 1940s and
in contemporary society is the inherent protection of antitrust laws that protect against certain powerful factions of a given industry from preventing equitable competition. Had Tucker attempted to create
and market his automobile only a few decades later - of which only a total of fifty-one were ever made (Martin, 2005) - he would have at least had the
opportunity to do so without fear of the same three car manufacturers squelching his efforts every step of the way as they did in 1940, utilizing political favors and other
unethical approaches to all but wipe out Tuckers idea long before it had a chance to flourish. In a world where money is omnipotent and those who possess great
wealth are revered as being God-like, the major automobile manufacturers of this era - along with help from a crooked government - were bound and determined to remain at the
top of the monetary mountain; Tucker had little means to battle such inequitable market structure without benefit of any antitrust laws that bore teeth. At the crux of Tuckers gross
inability to make it in the automobile industry was his desire to manufacture a car that was sustainable over time by way of limited maintenance and consistent design that would
ultimately draw upon existing technology and have cars virtually last forever. Indeed, this objective held no benefit to the giant automakers who saw Tucker as a tremendous threat to
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