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This is a well-produced video. Great to see this level of skill and work ethic present in Youtube video creators. The only thing I disagreed with the journalis
by CryptoPunk 6y ago
This is a well-produced video. Great to see this level of skill and work ethic present in Youtube video creators.
The only thing I disagreed with the journalist with is the story lens, or the moral of the story, that this is about big corporations helping each other. That's the easy anti-capitalist narrative that finds a wide audience, but it's not accurate.
McDonalds' actions are against the interests of the capitalists in this case, which are the shareholders. It's in the latter's best interest to partner with an ice cream maker that proves cost-effective for franchisees.
So this is really just a case of rent-seeking by an insider; maybe someone in the McDonalds corporate hierarchy with personal relationships or investments linking them with the ice cream maker Taylor, in which case it would be a worker acting against the best interests of McDonalds workers at large, the capitalists (McDonalds shareholders), and consumers. This doesn't provide the story with a sexy moral that fits in with some neat and tidy grand narrative, but it's more likely to be true.