The early story of McDonald’s is one of the great American tragedies. The food used to be excellent fresh-cooked hamburgers, real milkshakes, all this real food and available cheap and fast because they were well-organized. There’s a reason it got popular on a historic scale and started making a basically unlimited amount of money. Then, Ray Kroc pulled an Elon Musk on the (original) founders who had invented it all, hijacked the whole thing and took it over, and ruined the food to save money. Not satisfied with having fucked over the McDonald brothers, he then sued them for using their own name and then successfully drove them out of business from even having the single hamburger stand serving real food – now with a different name – that was all they had wanted to have in the first place.
It’s like everything good and bad about America, all wrapped up in one heart-rending little anecdote. Look up the whole story if you want to get upset.
Can’t say who was worse, Ray Krok or Jack Welch, but we’re definitely still feeling the consequences of their deeds.
And whomever lead Walmart into ruining commerce. Everyone hates Amazon, but Walmart started it all.
The early story of McDonald’s is one of the great American tragedies. The food used to be excellent fresh-cooked hamburgers, real milkshakes, all this real food and available cheap and fast because they were well-organized. There’s a reason it got popular on a historic scale and started making a basically unlimited amount of money. Then, Ray Kroc pulled an Elon Musk on the (original) founders who had invented it all, hijacked the whole thing and took it over, and ruined the food to save money. Not satisfied with having fucked over the McDonald brothers, he then sued them for using their own name and then successfully drove them out of business from even having the single hamburger stand serving real food – now with a different name – that was all they had wanted to have in the first place.
It’s like everything good and bad about America, all wrapped up in one heart-rending little anecdote. Look up the whole story if you want to get upset.
Mark Knopfler had a good song about that - Boom Like That
Competition? Send 'em south
They’re gonna drown? Put a hose in their mouth.
Do not pass go, go straight to hell
I smell that meathook smell…
Can’t say who was worse, Ray Krok or Jack Welch, but we’re definitely still feeling the consequences of their deeds. And whomever lead Walmart into ruining commerce. Everyone hates Amazon, but Walmart started it all.
Good job. Yeah. It’s so fucked up. People just don’t want to know how the sausage is made. They always want to be in a dream state.