Was Ford's departure from Brazil an abandonment?

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

Was Ford's departure from Brazil an abandonment?

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I dare not explain why, philosophically and epistemologically according to general systems theory, or tectology, the causes of events are composed of a chain of linked causes that at the right time combine to make the event successful, or that is, effects are logically associated with causes.

Apart from this philosophical discussion, the prophets are always right when they make prophecies about the past, or almost always, like explaining the reason for Cabral and Columbus' voyages to the end of the world, we know that there was no calm or chance in Cabral's arrival.

Thus, the narratives surpass any fiction or creativity.

Therefore, we will never know why Ford left Brazil because not even Ford knows, even though it is not the largest car manufacturer in the world, Ford has been manufacturing the best-selling car model in the world for 34 years in a row, which is the Pick up F150, therefore, one more variable to explain and to add to the discussions.

We can still try to understand about the fashion of SUV cars and the disappearance of sedan models and station wagons, vans and mini vans.

Thus, the discussion on the issue of industrialization is far from over, there is no such duality between raw materials and commodities against high-tech products, this discourse that rich countries owe their development to industrialization deserves serious repairs, especially when the commodity is: oil, gas, lithium, gold, uranium, soy, chicken, corn, but the US is the main source of this ideology of discrediting Brazil's economy by devaluing our economic potential based on raw materials and commodities; in fact the US commodity sector is the biggest in the world, thus: the biggest corn production in the world is in the USA, the biggest soy production in the world is in the USA, the biggest production of chicken in the world is in the USA, the largest beef production in the world is from the USA, the largest production of alcohol in the world is from the USA, when it is not in first it is among the top three in the world; so they want to attack the feeling and the psychological and the Brazilian national pride, trying to devalue the strength of the Brazilian economy; Bill Gates himself was just a poor boy who with a Volkswagen Beetle and a garage at home destroyed the biggest computer industry in the world that was IBM because IBM didn't pay attention to the microcomputer sector with DOS and later with Windows; Apple destroyed IBM machines because IBM didn't realize the invention of microcomputers; Tesla destroyed Toyota, GM, VW, BMW because they didn't realize the electric car model; then Nokia, once the biggest maker of cell phones created by Motorola, gave way to Korean Samsung and Huawei and others the Chinese ones, so I wouldn't risk investing in the technology sector because it's disposable and autophagic, everything becomes obsolete in less than a decade.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político