Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

[Mike Ash]

In article
<60cf5388-5ff6-422f...@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-o...@moderators.isc.or�g
<rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:

> > But hey, whatever doesn't work for them. Apparently here in Finland
> > McDonald's is operating at a loss, subsidised by home office, and has
> > been doing that for years. Losses here are small fries compared to
> > their budget, I suppose.
>
> Still, it seems unlikely that keeping a loss-making business open in
> one country would make sense even to an international megacorp.

Take the long view: pay a pittance to keep the thing operating, on the
off chance that it will finally take off and sprout up on every corner
like it has in so many other countries.

I mean, if you can carpet the capital city of Communist Fricken China
with the things, surely there's some hope for Finland.

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Mike Ash wrote:
> In article
> <60cf5388-5ff6-422f...@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
> Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-o...@moderators.isc.or�g
> <rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>
>>> But hey, whatever doesn't work for them. Apparently here in Finland
>>> McDonald's is operating at a loss, subsidised by home office, and has
>>> been doing that for years. Losses here are small fries compared to
>>> their budget, I suppose.
>> Still, it seems unlikely that keeping a loss-making business open in
>> one country would make sense even to an international megacorp.
>
> Take the long view: pay a pittance to keep the thing operating, on the
> off chance that it will finally take off and sprout up on every corner
> like it has in so many other countries.
>
> I mean, if you can carpet the capital city of Communist Fricken China
> with the things, surely there's some hope for Finland.
>

Ah, but you see the Great Leaders of Communist Fricken China are buying
off their people with Big Macs and other imported American consumer
goods. :D

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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:50 -0500, Mike Ash <mi...@mikeash.com>
wrote:

>In article
><60cf5388-5ff6-422f...@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
> Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-o...@moderators.isc.or�g
> <rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>
>> > But hey, whatever doesn't work for them. Apparently here in Finland
>> > McDonald's is operating at a loss, subsidised by home office, and has
>> > been doing that for years. Losses here are small fries compared to
>> > their budget, I suppose.
>>
>> Still, it seems unlikely that keeping a loss-making business open in
>> one country would make sense even to an international megacorp.
>
>Take the long view: pay a pittance to keep the thing operating, on the
>off chance that it will finally take off and sprout up on every corner
>like it has in so many other countries.
>
>I mean, if you can carpet the capital city of Communist Fricken China
>with the things, surely there's some hope for Finland.

Maybe the Finns jushave better taste than the Chinese.

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