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. NO!
The problems have been--and continue to be--with the "Captains of Industry" running them.
For 40 years, they have been running the companies all-reactively. Little or no innovation to meet the new challenges in transportation; only newness a
"at the edges."
]They continued to build masive cars weighing thousands of pounds more than necessary, containing engines over-adequate to run these behemoths, The natural result has been a giant waste of irreplaceable natural rersources which will too soon run out, "justifying car" buyers' expenditure of too much $$ for each such outofdate car coming off the assembly line AND making a nasty assured global warming,to boot.
And YOU blame the workers?? BS!