So, about Rio...

[Bereta_Eder]

Is your complaint against Free Trade, or predatory pricing practices?

is there a difference?

[Dauphin]

is there a difference?

Yes.

[The Mad Monk]

When the wall fell mcdonalds started to set shop in poland.
there already was a local chain of traditional food there.
it was cheap affordable and relatively healthy.

mcdonalds set shop and lowered the price of their products below that of the local polish food chain.

mcdonalds in poland operated in a loss but they had the mothercompany filling in with money from abroad.

the local food chain couldn't stand the competition.
it closed down. people lost their jobs. people lost their local healthy food.

when this happened, mcdonalds raised the cost of their products higher than what the local food chains had.

yeah
free trade is bad

Could it be they just liked McDonalds more?

[Bereta_Eder]

Yes.

which is?
and is enforced by?

[Bereta_Eder]

Could it be they just liked McDonalds more?

even you know how silly that sounds

[The Mad Monk]

I know McDonalds is everywhere, and they're not the loss leader everywhere, or they'd go bankrupt in short order.

[Giancarlo]

Is your complaint against Free Trade, or predatory pricing practices?

Coming from the guy who doesn't understand what free trade actually is...

Huge splat.

[Dauphin]

which is?
and is enforced by?

One is anti-competition and opposed by the WTO, the other is open competition.

Assuming it's true, Poland could have placed restrictions on McD's and stopped the practice. That they didn't was their choice or they decided it wasn't happening.

[Bereta_Eder]

I know McDonalds is everywhere, and they're not the loss leader everywhere, or they'd go bankrupt in short order.

really?

have you ever even left kansas?

They are retreating heavily in a vast number of countries years now, probably in poland too (because after all they sell ****)

I was talking about what happened there initially

[Bereta_Eder]

One is anti-competition and opposed by the WTO, the other is open competition.

Assuming it's true, Poland could have placed restrictions on McD's and stopped the practice. That they didn't was their choice or they decided it wasn't happening.

Well it certaintly is a true story.


Don't know why they didn't do that. Maybe it happened too fast to notice or maybe they simply didn't know.


So to get this straight: you're saying that this degree of thievery is illegal? and the law that protects from free market debauchery is enforced by an agency?

[The Mad Monk]

Pickles, I'm hurt, you know I was born and raised in New Jersey, right?

MickeyD's has made a couple bad turns recently; their success goes back decades.

[Bereta_Eder]

only tourists go to the very few mcdonalds ****foods.
kind like lidl is only for immigrants

you propably think the only soda out there is pepsi or coke too

[Dauphin]

So to get this straight: you're saying that this degree of thievery is illegal? and the law that protects from free market debauchery is enforced by an agency?

Illegal - if the country in which it is happening makes a law against it
Enforced- by the local country if it chooses to
Challenged or disputed - at the WTO; but don't expect to win if it is blatant

[Bereta_Eder]

excellent.
so it's basically the political power deciding to assume its role over free trade.

thought so

Now if only this starts happening at a more regular basis

[Bereta_Eder]

to break this down

Illegal - if the country in which it is happening makes a law against it

if it has such ability and hasn't relinquished it to a supra national law or institution. otherwise nada

Enforced- by the local country if it chooses to

see above

Challenged or disputed - at the WTO; but don't expect to win if it is blatant

que?