Admittedly Henry Ford, the man commonly credited with both the invention of the mass produced car as well as honing assembly line production, is not well-known for his theology.  But the quote below is worth some contemplation:

 

“I believe we should all be producers. Organized charity and schools of philanthropy and the whole idea of “giving” to the poor are on the wrong track. They don’t produce anything. If a railroad had a bad piece of track that wrecked cars every day and piled them in the ditch it would cure nothing to merely build a fine repair shop. The track itself should be fixed. Charity and philanthropy are the repair shops and the efficiency, however high, does not remove the cause of the human wrecks.”

I recognize that this is a very utilitarian view of man.  However, does this also, in part, reflect Biblical values?