(no subject)

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Superbiglikewhoa versions can be found here.

Comments

[lai-lai-ranma.livejournal.com]

These are seriously amazing and cutting.

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

These are like pictorial equivalents to the songs "American Pie" or "We Didn't Start the Fire," cramming a bunch of elements of history into one artistic work.

[head-splitter.livejournal.com]

I don't get why people associate McDonald's with evil. Oh no, we're a consumerist nation, that makes McDonald's bad!

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Like Rockefeller, eh?

[marksism.livejournal.com]

Do you have some links on the Apple/Steve Jobs stuff? Sounds interesting, I'd like to learn more.

[latenightapathy.livejournal.com]

I did the math in high school: the amount of money Bill Gates publicly gave away my senior year compared to his wealth was equivalent to me donating one dollar to charity for the whole year. While I haven't re-done the math recently, I still doubt that Bill Gates gives away a hugely significant amount of his disgustingly huge earnings that he will never be able to do anything with.

Also, I've not heard of many people praising Jobs or Apple of being a hugely socially responsible company; they do some good things and some bad things, just like many other companies. Most of the Apple praise I'v heard (and uttered) is because people like their products, not because they think either is the savior of humankind.

As for the wealthy bits, I disagree, but I'm not arguing with you about it. I have to get up early-ish and drive eleven hours tomorrow so I can resume being the poor kid in the midst of the wealthy, cheap, racist, classist, selfish pricks that most of my community is made up of.

[fleaplus.livejournal.com]

> While I haven't re-done the math recently, I still doubt that Bill Gates gives away a hugely significant amount of his disgustingly huge earnings that he will never be able to do anything with.

I just looked it up, and he's apparently given $29 billion to charities since the year 2000. Considering his net worth is $58 billion, that's a fairly decent proportion.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

But how much harm has his company done to the market because of their smash-and-grab business ethos? Has he donated enough to counteract that? That's why I brought up Rockefeller.

[fleaplus.livejournal.com]

eh. I've been a Linux user and open-source advocate since the late 90s, but I don't personally think that the current computer market would be all that much better if Gates had never been born.

[latenightapathy.livejournal.com]

Net worth right now? Because it would be a better figure to have for his net worth now, plus all of the money he made in between. I doubt it's that low. Also, did he give away that much, or did his foundation? Because he isn't the only source of income for the foundation.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

McDonald's - not bad
Clear Channel "McDonaldizing" every radio station in the country - bad.

See the dif?

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't think junk food should be required by law to bear warnings that it's monstrously bad for you, even though, hell yes, it is. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the "if people are too stupid to know the triple bacon whopper is roughly the same as throwing yourself onto a javelin, then the hell with them" attitude either though. McDs, Wendy's, BK, Checkers, anyone with a clue should know this is "once in a blue moon" kind of food, but regrettably most of us, myself included, can't seem to stay away from it.

[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

There are healthy options at McDs. If the consumer does not choose them, that is their fault.

[latenightapathy.livejournal.com]

I saw something a while back about how some of McD's salads are actually more fattening than a big mac.

http://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/fastfood_salads.html

That isn't, I don't think, the exact article, but it conveys the same informations.

[j0kerr.livejournal.com]

Well, if you are stupid enough to think fast food is healthy you deserve to die. No one has ever held a gun to someones head and forced them to eat fast food. Free will people, you are responsible for your own actions.

[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

I have a strong feeling that no one goes to McD's thinking "OMG THIS IS HEALTHY!"

Consumer responsibility is what it comes down to.

[head-splitter.livejournal.com]

In the first picture, on the lower bottom of Washington's neck. People just looove labeling McD's as the symbol of mass consumerism as if that's a bad thing.

[head-splitter.livejournal.com]

on his chest*

"Lower bottom" was a bit repetitious, and off the mark.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

I think mainly because McDonalds were pioneers in making culinary slumming convenient, and nobody blames themselves for succumbing to temptation.

[madali.livejournal.com]

I dont get it.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Ohhh... that explains the new variation on 419s trying to transfer all those zeros out of the country.