Comment on It's Never too Late

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d consider it worse than Edison. Edison’s real contribution to technology was the creation of a company R&D lab geared towards new products. He would invest in the development of the product before it became big.

  Kroc took over an already functioning business.

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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …dude Musk’d the fuck outta McDonald’s?

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ray Kroc started buying up the land the franchises were being built on and became McDonald’s landlord. Then he was able to eventually to force McDonald brothers into a deal because he could have shut down the businesses by not renewing their leases on the land.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was really disappointed by the film about him with Michael Keaton. Even though they couldn’t completely hide who he really was, it was a hagiography.

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    • macgyver@federation.red ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it did a great job selling that he was a total sleazeball

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess I felt like it showed he was still doing a great thing despite how he was as a person.

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