Sunday, January 10, 2021

The McDonald's and Coca-Cola System for All Things

Ask any CEO or billionaire owner family what kind of business model they wish to have and they will say either McDonald's or Coca-Cola. Those two are worldwide recognized brands, own swaths of land in hundreds of countries, can establish local supply chains, adapt to local regulations, and safely employee local employees. The entry level workers are not paid much but they get training, benefits, and upward mobility. 

With the advent of some disrupting software mediated technologies such as 3D printing, AI engineering, robotic assembly, probiotics, and hydroponic agriculture, every major country, continent, island, or what have you can produce food and valuable physical capital within itself, effectively equalizing the economic playing field. Climate and geography will mean less for economic viability. The final result is not necessarily utopian but in the thread bare platitude of neoliberalism "technically a bit better".

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