Of course if a dissatisfied customer sues McDonald then they are a piker and a "take advantager uhver" and there aught to be a tort law to do away with such abuses by the consumers. Like the little old lady handed a boiling cup of hot coffee and who burned herself.
(with a hip hop beat) Consumer beware unless it is a cooking critic and then that is no fair. It makes me want to go back to the Texas humour. REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] The free market in action? ~ A McGedankenexperiment > Harry Pollard wrote: > > Brad, > > > > It's a face-off between a restaurant critic and 600,000 Italians who > > each day eat McDonald's food. > > Somehow I did not read the piece as saying that 600,000 > angry Italians were pummeling one other Italian. > > It sounded like "men in Armani suits" from McHeadquarters > earning their corporate salaries and fringe benefits by > initiating a legal proceeding (you know, filing > papers to try to get this guy's life ruined > through means that leave no marks on the flesh....) > via functionaries (Sartre's waiter: remember him?) > who get their paychecks from another bureaucracy.... > > It didn't sound like the McBacchae to me. But maybe I > got it wrong? > > > You work it out, Brad. One restaurant > > critic, who no doubt spends most of his time in the best restaurants and > > 600,000 Italians who probably couldn't afford to enter those restaurants > > where the critic spends his time. > > [snip] > > > > While an intellectual may take the side of the critic, the people who > > matter buy McDonald's by the billion. Definitely, mutually beneficial > > intercourse. > > "The people who matter"? An interesting description for > the people who, as individuals, precisely *do not > matter*, but who, by some magic, in vast aggregates, > are, as you say, what matters. > > But we styill have not gotten to the bottom of the > interaction between Joe Hungry and Sally Bagger (or > Sally Hungry and Joe Bagger, etc. -- I'm EEO...).... > > Is Bagger operating in the same way behind the counter > as Bagger operated *as an individual* (i.e., as > Hungry)? Let me give you an example: Bagger's identical > twin (Baguette?). who either doesn't have a > job, or else is doing a Laurie Anderson act, > walks into the Mc, puts on a McUniform, and starts > bagging burgers. Now, in every detail > except for the contingent attribute of being > on the company's payroll, we can discern no > difference between Bagger and Baguetts. Question: > If Bagger's shift starts at 8AM and Baguette starts > bagging at 8AM, also, do Bagger and Baguette's > days proceed more or less identically? Or does > McManager ask Baguette to leave (even though Baguette > is in every way acting like a McEmployee!)? And, > if Baguette doesn't leave but keeps on bagging, > doesn't McManager finally call the police? > Whereas Bagger continues to bag all day -- indeed, > if Bagger doesn't keep bagging all day, doesn't > Bagger get fired? > > So I think there is something going on here > besides the free consensual and mutually > beneficial intercourse of individuals. > Or do you disagree, Harry? > > (We can next proceed to see if there > is any difference in what happens, when > each of the following enters the Mc: > > (1) Baguette (this time coming only to > purchase a burger as an individual > consumner, > > (2) Bagman (you know, a "homeless person"), and > > (3) A person who *looks* identical to > #1, but whom someone has tipped off > McUpperManagment that this person is > an agent of PETA or some other > institution, secretly collecting > "evidence" and not merely seeking > to injest colories. > > > > Isn't it? > > > > \brad mccormick > > > > Harry > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Brad wrote: > > > >> McDonalds in Italy is suing a food critic for > >> saying McDonalds food doesn't taste good. > >> > >> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2853384&src=eD ialog/GetContent > >> > >> > >> Is this faceoff between the corporate hoard and one > >> little mouse an example of what Harry > >> talks about when he says that the free market is > >> a place where persons always and only engage in mutually > >> beneficial intercourse? > >> > >> All "persons" are created equal? --Whether it is > >> a naked food critic or McGlobalCorp? > >> > >> Humpety Dumpety sat on a wall > >> Humpety Dumpety had a great fall > >> All the kings lawyers and all the king's spin doctors > >> Proved that Humpety Dumpety never fell off at all. > >> > >> The "intelligence community" seems a bit displeased > >> today with how Bush et Cie. jerked them around > >> to make the case for attacking Saddam Hussein just > >> because we wanted to but needed a reason to give to the > >> public.... > >> > >> \brad mccormick > > > > > > > > **************************************************** > > Harry Pollard > > Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles > > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > > Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 > > http://home.attbi.com/~haledward > > **************************************************** > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.484 / Virus Database: 282 - Release Date: 5/27/2003 > > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... 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