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Taco Bell and the Golden Age of Drive-Thru

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Rivera Jun 22, 2011 6:23 PM GMT This is all discussed in an academic book called the Mcdonalization of Society. this author didn't write anything new.
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B Lewis Jun 4, 2011 3:36 AM GMT At what point in the TRED process does the rat feces go in?
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eric Jun 3, 2011 12:32 AM GMT It is very clear to me, JACK, that you do not understand the reason for someone to have a job. If everyone just started their own business, there would be no employees for the business-owner to exploit. And like it or not, the jobs market is just that, a market. If you supply a job with insufficient compensation for the area you employ in, you will find little to no demand. Wake up to reality, if you don't pay people enough to live well, then they have nothing to lose and will turn to anarchy.
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J Cortez Jun 2, 2011 9:45 AM GMT mjw149, I question why you hate personal choice. Taco Bell, McDonald's, KFC, etc do only one thing, provide products that people want. If people didn't want them, these companies wouldn't be in business and making lots of money.Also, full out socialized health care is a very bad idea. There's been a slow socialization that's been the driver for the present problems. Current health care costs are the result of slowly choking of market competition since the 1940's. The current system only benefits politically connected corporations that would normally get outcompeted in a free market. Setting up a socialized monopoly will make things worse. What is needed is more competition, not less.
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Steve again Jun 2, 2011 9:42 AM GMT You people with this idealized view of the US/Society/World Economics need to wake up. Guess what: if TB paid their employees more that would make their food cost more and thus less people would buy it. Eventually, down the street someone would start a Taco Shack or whatever that paid its workers less and it would steal all of the business from Taco Bell. Now all of those poor 'slaves' working for TB would be on the streets (or more likely leeching off the government).The way to increase wages is not to legislate it. It is to legitimately provide more value and expect just compensation. You can wish in one hand and crap in the other, taking fast food orders and rolling burritos is never going to be a job that produces tons of 'value' and thus will never be well paid.I swear I'm convinced that most liberals failed or just didn't go to any math classes. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why unskilled workers are paid poorly. If anyone (literally anyone with a mouth and two hands, sooooo about 99.9% of the population) can do your job, then it's not going to pay very well.
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Steve Jun 2, 2011 9:33 AM GMT mjw149,You sound like a Nazi or a Communist. Why should I have to pay more for my Taco Bell when I am in perfect health? I can responsibly limit myself to eating it only once in a while. I can exercise and eat well other than the occasional TB splurge. Why punish responsible people like myself just to take care of people un-willing to take responsibility for themselves? This is the exact reason why 'universal healthcare' and other state sponsored nanny welfare programs don't work. They dis-incentivize personal responsibility and turn people into leeches of the state.
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Jay Jun 2, 2011 9:30 AM GMT How about not having universal health care and letting people eat what they want to eat! Who is to say that a person should or shouldnt have something..Please let people be and dont take money from others to fund others. That is the biggest problem which actually encourages unhealthy eating habits because the person is no more responsible for their own health. Universal health care is the problem, that should be removed. Additional regulation to remove the effects of problems created by regulation is reverse logic
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mda Jun 1, 2011 12:29 PM GMT The elitist slagging of Taco Bell and fast food in the comments is fascinating. If Karl Greenfeld was writing about working as a line chef at Moosewood or some locally grown slow foods place, would people be making the same snotty comments?
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mjw149 Jun 1, 2011 11:24 AM GMT Everyone complains about wall street's computer traders not adding value to society. Well, there's no value to fast food. It's filling a 'need' that people shouldn't have. Yes, I can skip a meal if I don't have more than 10 minutes to eat. When we have universal health care, we should implement fat taxes on food, which is the primary driver of obesity, which is the primary driver of health care costs. That's one way to improve the health of the middle class in America.
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peter Jun 1, 2011 10:46 AM GMT franchised food factories following formats for faster forwarding for factory farmed foodand we wonder why the diseases of obesity are over-burdening our health care budgetwe are F-D!
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