I've written a little, mostly whimsical article about McDonald's restaurants in Melbourne. Given that it touches on capitalism, I figured it might be of some interest to you radical types.
If 'Coca-Cola' is the most recognised word in the world, then McDonald's
golden arches would have to be the most recognized symbol. There are
McDonald's restaurants in one hundred and nineteen countries, and
economist Thomas Friedman once famously said that no country with a
McDonald's has ever gone to war with one another.
He was wrong, of course – take the US invasion of Panama, or the
2006 Lebanon War – but McDonald's has nonetheless gained a certain
currency among capitalist, free-market types. Even in liberal Melbourne,
where 'capitalism' is a dirty word, street corners throughout the CBD
blossom with fibreglass-fronted, golden-arched fast food restaurants.
The rest of the article is
here.
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