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Kind of depressing to see people see a fascinating new world that has developed for billions of years in the cold made of volatile chemicals, and the first reac
by tehjoker 6y ago
Kind of depressing to see people see a fascinating new world that has developed for billions of years in the cold made of volatile chemicals, and the first reaction of people reading about it is to cut it up and remake it in our image.
- basementcat 6y agoNot unlike a westerner who visits an exotic foreign country for the first time and looks for a McDonalds for lunch.
- social_quotient 6y agoBut what’s more sad here. They want McDonald’s or that there is a McDonald’s?
- shadowprofile77 6y agoAnd what would be so sad about there being a McDonald's? Or maybe you believe that most of the developing world should be conserved in an "authentic" state for your aesthetic and political benefit? Because if that McDonald's exists in X place and is doing a brisk business, some not too small percentage of the local population is perceiving a benefit from it. Not to mention that, being a franchise business, it's benefiting some local entrepreneur, his/her family and all the people they benefit in the local economy through the restaurant and earnings they spend elsewhere. Sure, let's not stuff western megabrand businesses into every nook and cranny of the world's cultural landscape, but to call the rise of modern market brands in developing countries "sad" is self serving and narrow-sighted at best.