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Whats everyones perspective on anti-competitive practices in the private sector? (Case study: McDonalds ice cream machines being broken all the time due to anti-free market principles) (youtu.be)
posted 4 years ago by gunteh 4 years ago by gunteh +10 / -1
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– White_Phosphorus 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

What "anti free market" activities were even going on in this video? Makes no sense. Does McDonalds just really like paying Taylor more money than they should for ice cream machines for no particular reason? And I felt like I was having a stroke from 26:00 to the end when he just keeps repeating the same thing in a poor effort to make the viewer think he actually came to an impactful conclusion.

"It's because there's an old relationship between between two old companies that don't want things to change." Great detective work there, McDonalds is known for wasting money and never adopting new technology like digital ordering machines to replace employees. This narrative just makes no sense.

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– White_Phosphorus 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Businesses trying to make money is not anti free market just because you don't like the way they do it, but that's not even ostensibly what's going on here. According to this guy one corporation, Taylor, is fleecing another corporation, McDonalds, and McDonalds is complicit in this even though he presented no reason why this would benefit them whatsoever. Maybe there is some convoluted way that McDonalds corporate benefits, but he never even attempted to figure out how. Instead he chalked it up to "old relationships." Which is incredibly flimsy because corporations have business relationships, not personal relationships where people are content to be leached on.

The only way this makes any sense as presented is if Taylor is somehow the only company able to make ice cream machines in the world and the person in charge just hates McDonalds for some reason.

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– White_Phosphorus 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

They don't know about the problems until later.

Who is they, McDonalds corporate or the franchisees?

Did you listen to the whole thing?

Are you serious? If you had actually even read my top level comment you would know the answer. Here's a hint: "26:00 to the end ."

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