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Only an unintended consequence if you accept the article's premise that a non-trivial number people actually went to McD's and only bought the toy, and those pe
by bstrand 15y ago
Only an unintended consequence if you accept the article's premise that a non-trivial number people actually went to McD's and only bought the toy, and those people will continue to go for the toy but buy the happy meal to get it. And feed it to their kid.
Seems dubious to me.
- city41 15y agoBut McDonald's is still selling happy meals with toys in them in San Francisco. They are just selling them for ten cents more now. So the law is effectively moot.
- marknutter 15y agoIt seems that the unintended consequence here is that the Ronald McDonald house is getting more donations than it used to. It not accomplishing the goal the law set out to accomplish certainly wasn't intended, but it wasn't an "unintended consequence" in the traditional sense.