McDonald's is considering rent deferrals for franchisees

Post by ryanmercer » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

JadeNB wrote: post #59

ryanmercer wrote: post #58

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Yeah, politicians need voters to not completely hate them so they can get re-elected. Imagine if instead politicians were selected by lottery, served shorter terms, and had their appointments staggered. I wonder if any authors have given this a shot in fiction, I'd read it.

Well, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery_in_Babylon , but not in the realistic spirit that you probably intended. (There's also HHGttG's https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ruler_of_the_Universe , again in a different spirit.)

Post by heavenlyblue » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 8:04 PM UTC

tclancy wrote: post #29

hef19898 wrote: post #3

If a company like McDonalds can pull it off, that will most likely give them quite an advantage. Once things go back to normal, that would mean McDonalds franchise network is likely to be in omaprativley good shape. When competitor don't implement solutios like this, McDonalds would have quite a head start! Not to speak about the franchise owners, and their employees to a certain extent.

I don't really get the question of "if" for anyone close to this size. It goes back to the old adage, "If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem". A corporation as large as McDonalds can dictate terms to whoever holds their debt.

Post by gerland » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:35 AM UTC

heavenlyblue wrote: post #64

gerland wrote: post #57

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It's also funny that people are ready to downvote anything they do not agree with. Let me explain to you how it works - the downvote button is a tool that should serve to mark comments that are unnecessarily inflamatory or provide no value on their own. This is not a toy for you to remove opinions that you do not agree with. For this unique situation in which the whole world somehow does not agree with you, please us…

People are downvoting you because you are being controversial and you know it.

Post by gerland » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 7:48 AM UTC

heavenlyblue wrote: post #66

gerland wrote: post #65

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That's exactly my point. Why would someone downvote because he finds an opinion controversial? Offensive, unrelevant, I can understand. Unpopular, controversial? That's pretty much how echo chambers are made. Is omeone wants to hear the same opinion fot the rest of his life, then he can write it in google calendar and send it as notification every day. No point in going in a public space and trolling.

Because it’s against the rules of the website