Fast Food Kills Culture

After reading chapter 7: Cogs In the Great Machine, I immediatly thought of a Wall-Mart documentary I watched about how buisness chains like Wall-Mart plow through towns destroying local buisnesses that can't compete with such low prices. Now at first you'd think, "Well too bad for the local buisnesses, I need the cheaper price," which the majority of Americans do. To some it might sound a little insensitive, but only if your the small buisness. Because at the end of the day buisness is about profit and mass production coincides with chain department guarintees maximum profit. However the employees of these multi-billion dollar companys are payed minimum wage salaries that make it impossible to make a living. Also, the company relies on government assistance to provide their employees with expensive but low coverage insurance. Many full time employees couldn't even afford food after paying their insurance cost, which should have been covered by the company for working full time hours. This reminded me alot of FFN and how the employees of large chain restaurants are treated, getting payed minimum wages because the employees only work one station. I was pretty disgusted at the way large companys put profit in front of employees and even more disgusted at the senes dipicted at Greeley, Colorado, a small meat-packing town whose values and culture was destroyed by the IBM revolution. This applied the same labor laws in meat-packing that the McDonald brothers applied to making hamburgers.