: When it comes to "protecting the worker" I think the anti-McDonald's groups are very self-serving and hypocritical in their views. They are using cases of worker mistreatment, anti-union policies, etc. to advance their stance on the environment, meat consumption, and cultural exportation (and in some extreme cases, anti-capatilism). The thing I'm wondering is, who serves the McDonald's worker better...the owners who provide them with a job and steady pay check, or the groups that are trying to get them fired? How can you dare speak in defense of workers whose company you want to shut down? My two cents.Not worth two cents though. Countries (cities, towns) which "acquired" McDonald's gained absolutely NOTHING. No high-tech technology, no improvement in infrastructure, no substantial (if any) increase in tax revenues. There is a big difference among types of foreign investment, good and bad, and McDonald's is perhaps the example of the worst one. For instance, in the UK and France (or almost anywhere else), McDonald's did not create any new jobs. It stole jobs. People who are now employed by McDonald's, would be otherwise employed by a local, most likely privately, (the essence of capitalism!) owned restaurants. They would have received equal, or most likely better wages, serve quality REAL food, re-sell products of local (European) agriculture.
Profits from these businesses would have stayed in local community, re-invested in the traditional Adam Smith's sense, and creating wealth in their native country (city,town). Instead, these folks are slaved at minimum wage, reselling products of an alien corporation, with all the money going to some unknown savage place in the United States to be spent on God knows what (I assume McDonald's provides some grants to the institutions of "higher learning" in the United States, so the things like you can spread propaganda of mutant pseudo Capitalist theories and outlandish "free trade" ideas (to be enforced by almost Soviet-style dogmatic departments under the government of the United States).
Folks who complain about McDonald's have the full right to do so: McDonald's is a destructive, exploiting purveyor of garbage, a cultural pest and an environmental if McDonald's were to disappear, the people who work there won't lose much. As you know, in the capitalism, somebody would take McDonald's place almos immediately. And if you have ever been to Europe or developed countries in Asia (although I doubt you have), they'll get a better a job!
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