Johanna, do you ever buy lottery tickets? No, never. Not a lottery ticket kind of gal.

I actually just got shamed by the man selling me lottery tickets for wasting my money.

You buy lottery tickets? I do buy lottery tickets. And I think what I really like about it is fantasizing that, you know, if I have enough money, I will finally be able to do

whatever I want. And this is the appeal of being a multi-millionaire, Ella. I think you're not

the first one to have this crazy, wild notion that money will give me power. And the story that we're

going to talk about today is about a lot of things.

But one of them is a lesson about how even with unlimited money from time to time, the world refuses to do your bidding.

So I want to take you back to the 1920s and tell you about Henry Ford.

The 1920s was a time when Henry Ford was incredibly wealthy. Classic story,

he'd started off as a simple Michigan farm boy, started tinkering, and then in 1908 he created

the Model T, the first ever affordable mass-produced car, which made him incredibly rich. But it also

reshaped America in the process.

Like, he decided that well-paid workers weren't going to quit, so he brought in higher wages.

He also brought in the eight-hour workday.

It's funny, I was just talking last weekend with my partner about Ford a little bit where

we were like, he is the reason that we have a car-centric society.

But he was surprisingly good to his workers.

Complicated figure.

He started off good to his workers.

We'll get there.

But in the late 1920s, Ford, despite all of his wealth, he was forced to cave on a couple of pretty big things.

He was forced to finally update his cars after years of resisting even a simple color change,

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