>>543353978cool it with the antisemitism
>>543353978because franchising is a scam and franchise "owners" actually just rent all the shit from McD's while paying rent on the property the corp bought and owns, typicallythey barely make any more profit from it than your average wagie doeskroc was a spiritual kike
>>543353978downfall of an empire
That would lower profits.
effectively the deal is "you assume all of the costs and we take most of the profit"
>>543353978Dividends eat profits
McDonalds is actually a real estate mogul that happens to sell hamburgers. They'll be fine.They own over half the land their franchises sit on.
>>543353978mcchicken used to be $1 , now its $3+they cant lower prices cuz their COGs and labor are going up, im guessing. and their duty to shareholders is to increase share price
>>543354171I don't understand what good it does for them really, if they can't sell goyslop anymore what's the big play then, selling their real estate or something? Then what?
>>543354346Buying it back later when the market is better.
>>543353978Why can't Americans just split a hamburger with a friend instead of eating the whole thing?
>>543354346turning it into McPartments
their major source of profit isn't the food anyway it's all the rent and fees the franchise owners pay, vastly
Because then numbers would go down. Numbers must go up. Always. Forever.
>>543353978>Line goes upCapitalism is cancer and will kill us
>>543354188im a millionaire and i avoid going to mcds now, when i can just toss something in the air fryeralso Dunkin does $6 meal deals, that comes with iced coffee.mcd is fucked unless they expand their offerings of food choices, they cant keep raising prices on burgers/chicken nuggets.
>>543354461You underestimate how little control food delivery users have.
>>5433539781300 calories on a single burger is diabolical lmao. This is why you are all fat diabetic fucks.
>>543354346The objective is to kill the franchises without buying them out and start managing all the stores as well.
>>543354383they should turn their lots into mini nuclear power plants, just switch the business model
>>543353978because the smaller percentage of profitable stores have to prop up all the rest of the unprofitable ones
>>543354638or mini McDatacenters collectively forming one huge McDatacenter
>>543353978>whyaccelerationism is the word you are looking for op
>>543354629they'd never do that since the franchise model is vastly far more profitable for them, and they don't even have to worry about most legal culpability either or employee shit at them because the franchisees absorb all that on themselves
say some employee flips out and beats an old man to death; you can't sue McD's corporate, you can only sue the franchisee
>>543354346They usually buy the land before the city grows around it. It just becomes more valuable as society grows.
3$ is the most I am willing to pay for double cheese.It costs about 4.2$ here now.Didn't have it in years.
EAT IT YOU FILTHY MUTT, EAT IT NOW ,PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH, I KNOW YOU LOVE IT
i could tolerate the price if it was decent quality stillbut god damned i havent had an actual hot burger from there in ages, theyre always lukewarm and dry
>>543353978why is every business that deals in food trying to match or be as close to the equation of 1 dollar per every 100 calories?They are all doing it from Walmart to Fast food chains which genuinely begs the question if buying from a grocery store is better and cheaper than fast food at this point.
>>543353978they would rather go out of business than let the goyum win the price war. mcdonalds puts addictive chemicals inside of it's food as more and more people find the quality of mcdonalds to be lacking mcdonalds must raise it's prices to remain viable. imagine a large group of men standing under a large disc supporting it's weight. as each man leaves the weight gets heavier. that's what's happening to their prices. they're trying to rely exclusively on hercules class customers to support their weight. the system will collapse unless mcdonalds radically alters it's pattern of behavior. Mcdonalds should hire all natural food scientist to certify mcdonalds as healthy. they need to radically alter their entire food production and food source from the baseline up. total vertical reintergration. once mcdonalds becomes passable for the foodies and trendies they can support higher food costs. they'll have to massively undergo rebranding as well. proving their food is healthy, decomposes, and genuinely GOOD FOR YOU. they must issue a massive apology for excessive goyslopification. and focus on sustainably grown roof top green house garden salads with no harmful pesticides or herbicides. mcdonalds can make a come back. but it requires black rock the major shareholder of mcdonalds to give a fuck. which they don't. so basically it's going to collapse because the owners don't care about the product and then the ceo of mcdonalds will ask the president to save it and trump will ask america publicly if we even want mcdonalds to be saved. they'll ask for a bail out because black rock is too busy not giving a shit and would rather spend money buying ai data centers and fucking up water rights.
>>543354905blackrock ification of the economy. walmart, kroger, albertsons, and maybe a few others are in cahoots to crank the prices as high as possible and drive as much profit as possible. they assume incorrectly that they have enough market domination that they run unopposed in the food chains. meanwhile disruption is occurring as smaller stores are reemerging as viable alternatives to mega corps. it's the laziest ploy of all time work together to price gauge and it works short term but it will backfire long term
>>543353978they could but these mbas somehow don't understand demand elasticity(or maybe they are right and this is a good price point)
>>543354346The goal now is to loot the assets before everything goes to shit.
>>543353978It's a perpetual cycle where lost sales and increased advertising force them to raise prices to remain solvent. It's over.
>>543353978For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.I even dip my fries in McChicken sauce, it's delicious! What a great restaurant.
The lettuce in big macs tastes gay now. It's gay lettuce.
>>543353978that would make number go down. Whatever they are doing, somebody is taking so much of the money they cannot actually fix themselves.
>>543355367I welcome the McBalkanization. Even if McDonalds absolutely ruins itself with this scheme, the OG restaurant will remain for people who really, really like that golden arch.
>>543357362frankly i find it irrelevant. i've already moved on i stopped eating mcdonalds long before it was trendy to. if they verifiably reform then fine. if not, that's fine as well. i exist outside of the mcsystem. i think it will collapse soviet union style. because the hercules class customers were only ever casual customers to begin with. they're just late the to the game of musical chairs. when they realize it's no longer trendy and that we've all moved on they'll abandon it in favor the new thing. a lot of people only buy mcdonalds to particpate in the culture now and the culture is dying
>>543359122a lot of fast food income is people getting lunch during or food after work, and bunch of jobs have been disappearing
>>543353978they dont use the seeded buns for the quarter pounder anymore. they use the shitty normal ones
>>543353978Just so you are aware I have reported this thread to the FBI for antisemitic terrorism.
>>543353978Your terrible farmers can't raise low fat (grass fed) beef
>>543354062>barely make any more profit from it than your average wagie doesB8
>>543354062Typical profit on a McDonald’s store in the U.S. is: An average U.S. McDonald's franchise generates a median annual revenue (Average Unit Volume) of $4.1 million, resulting in an estimated take-home owner profit of roughly $430,000 per year.
>>543354832Order them specially made.
>>543353978Line no go down! ONLY UP!!
>>543353978When Ukraine was invaded source for McDonalds cheap meat was severely disrupted.
>>543354171Yes, yes, you watched the movie, very good.
>>543359711They cook the burgers and throw them in plastic warming trays. They arent supposed to just let them sit there for hours but they do. Special orders will still contain a burger from that warming tray, cold or otherwise.
>>543359580>t. never spoke to one about doing it yourself>>543359686>t. source: LLM
>>543355271A fast food chain getting a government bailout would be unprecedented
>>543355465Basic economic theory is dead, all they care about is getting whatever numbers they think will help them pump the stock price. Personally, I think that their move away from kid-first marketing and their heavily inflated pricing is going to backfire slowly in the coming years. They’re a household name now, but that’s going to fade and then they’ll have to actually compete with chain with a much smaller overhead
>>543359418The West has fallen.
>>543359859I worked at mcds in h.s, so yes I have actually spoken to franchise owners.
>>543356952I was going to ask what prevents them from taking the loss, lower prices drastically and going back to kid-first marketing but it would probably tank their stock price which is the outcome they want to avoid the most
>>543353978Not enough Lindsay Clancy's killing their kids for the burger patty mix
>>543360208>I worked at mcds in h.s, so yes I have actually spoken to franchise owners.>I worked at one but spoke to severalk, so my anecdotal evidence and yours cancel one another outgood day
>>543353978They'll just have to go straight to bean burgers. Americans are too poor for beef.
>>543360096If I want a burger I just go to the family run burger joint that has good milkshakes. They are always winning awards for "beat burger" and have for decades. It costs less than $10 for a top-tier double cheeseburger however you want it, hand cut fries, and a milkshake. Lol. If you just get a fries and a water with your burger its like $7.50. Im talking top shelf burger. Good mallard. Soft potato bun. Sautéed onions. I might go there tomorrow for lunch thinking about it. If they set up a drive thru window and a proper website/app system for ordering they would probably be so busy that they would need a bigger kitchen. Last time I went there a line was wrapping around the building and I still had my food in under 15 minutes.
Prices cannot be lowered because that'll just piss off the shareholders and upset everyone involved
McD has decided to "just fuck my shit up" and rely on only whale customers who eat nothing else and will pay no matter what. They're a luxury brand now.A reasonable cost meal while traveling? A reasonable cost treat for a warm meal while spending a day shopping or whatever normies do? Not anymore.
>>543354188Everybody wants to be a growth stock I don't get what happened to blue chip dividend stocks... they were popular back in the day, nobody wanted the growth stocks because they're risky as fuck and once McDs became a growth stock look what happens: REKT
>>543360289You don't have any evidence and your statement goes against all logic without even getting into the verifiable economic data that readily available. McDs franchis owners make a lot of money. Millions per year. Its one of the best investments. So is owning McDs stock as they have the highest YoY dividend payouts.
>>543357136this is a very sad AI copy pasteat least its keeping you ignorant
>>543360540>your statement "jews gonna jew" goes against all logicinteresting
>>543360602That is ancient copypasta, newfag.
>>543354062If corporate is shit don’t expect a franchise to be lucrative
>>543360736No, your statement that franchise owners barely make any more money than the wagies they employ.
>>543354346Business is fundamentally recognizing and using leverage to force the other actors to comply to your wishes. Owning the literal ground beneath their feet is the ultimate leverage against the franchise owner. Case in point. Why has no franchisee decreased prices on their own?
>>543360848k, we'll leave it at 'agree to disagree' then
I mean, can you imagine being assblistered or something and trying to keep some 'nuh uh' exchange going past that
Here wings went from 20 for €5To 6 for €7 (???)But if you install stupid app which i refuse to do for privacy can get 12 for €7What the fuck is this shit even2019 : 20 for €52024 : 6 for €72026 : 12 for €7 IF you give us all your private information and let us track your location
>>543360894>say something stupid like "franchise owners make minimum wage>someone corrects you>"u mad bro?"
>>543361032>which i refuse to do for privacyLOL
Successful business lifespan is usually only 30-40 years. Nothing's forever, zoomie.
>>543361055>k, we'll leave it at 'agree to disagree' then>>543361055>>"u mad bro?"why are you so upset?
>>543353978Because they're part of the grand conspiracy.
You used to be able to score some good pussy there. But they decided to cater to niggers, and shrunk McNuggets by 11% while substituting white meat for that classic juicy dark meat that made them so delectable.
Has anyone listened to the Wendy's album yet?
>>543361198Yes. It's really good.
>>543360189>>543360208>>543360096>Personally, I think that their move away from kid-first marketing and their heavily inflated pricing is going to backfire slowly in the coming years.Even nonwhites are barely having kids anymore.
thats exactly what will happen once their stock price goes under a point their board of directors finds untenable
>>543353978their burgers don't look like thatthey maliciously use photoshop or ai to deceive the customer
>>543353978lowering the prizes?they over "engineered" every product they had to shit, they arent capable of serving a normal burger anymore, people only go there because they like the sauces.pic related they cant make the patty even thinner and investors expect growth... the prize is the only variable left. its over
>>543354383For the love of God anon don't give them ideas.
>>543361438Its how they look like in your mind because it tastes too good.
>>543353978why would they if people still buy it?
>>543361530I theorized Walmart and Amazon were gonna do the company town things and make campuses to offset housing as the former is the nation's largest private employer.
>>543361530they're jews, they don't need mine, they probably already have ancient ad mock ups and blueprints>>543361626>DINNERTIMIN'
>>543361269>please dear god just come hang out in the parking lot ffs maybe you'll buy something IT'S NOT THAT BAD
>>543361626>no tippinglol
lel was it wendy's that had the terrible idea of asking people to redraw wendy as a waifu or was that another place
>>543354617It's the fries and the soda
>>543353978overall the fastfood industry is doing really well, americans are willing to play through the nose for their goyslop, McDonalds is just cheaping out on portion size
>>543361473be glad you even got a pickel
>>543353978I don’t understand current food franchises. Little Caesar’s had the $5 pizzas to attract more customers and then they’d buy breadsticks and more expensive pizzas and drinks and they knew the $5 pizzas would be a small loss but everything else would even it out. McDonald’s used to have cheap McNuggets and I was addicted to them but they don’t even have that anymore. Long John Silvers did it with their cheap hush puppies too but now franchise owners don’t understand that getting customers in the building is the first step to not going broke.
>>543353978No real reason McDonald's keeps having to increase prices is because Indians are replacing Americans. Indians don't eat beef and thus sales have gone down. The price will adjust eventually but they have to shrink their cost of business first.
>>543361619I'm honestly amazed they haven't yet and I assume it's because there's still some lingering American spirit that can't quite stand to go full Chinese corporate dystopia yet.>>543361795They need your consent though, apparently, and you echoing the idea is just that.
>>543353978CEOs need to make 2000% more than wagies and the franchise owners crying poverty want to buy more rental properties to gouge renters. Lowering prices fucks that up. No, they don't care if you don't like paying $4 for a "dirty soda" that literally has mold and shit in it from the machine. They know boomers and other retards will keep paying for this slop, so everything is priced up to gouge customers that have 0 standards and too much money AKA 99% of the boomers and trust fund millennials.
>>543354707Dont give them ideas
>>543361840Wendy's seems to be doing ok if they can release an emo album.Yep, you heard it right. It's actually great.Sir, this is an “Emo” Wendy’s.Wendy’s just dropped “Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot,” a six-song EP featuring members of Memphis May Fire, Silverstein, blessthefall, State Champs, and Holy Wars, plus Chloe Kinnon.Tracklist:1. She Said She Didn’t Want Fries (feat. Matty Mullins)https://youtu.be/ihbVVfwEC5M 2. Salt in the Wound (feat. Chloe Kinnon)https://youtu.be/8_VPbRfulB4 3. I Miss the Sunroom (feat. Shane Told)https://youtu.be/ztGT5WErl9g 4. The Best Combo Meal on the Worst Night of My Life (feat. Beau Bokan)https://youtu.be/Jvqga88jtEo 5. It’s Not a Phase, It’s a 10pc (feat. Derek DiScanio)https://youtu.be/tr965bSl04Q 6. My Frosty’s Funeral (feat. Kat Leon)https://youtu.be/7GCvifDXs-s
>>543361840I can still get a perfectly fine (for fast food) burger combo meal at Wendys for under $7,, just don't upsize anything. Easily fills you up til supper.
>>543353978The Big Mac will still be the size of an Egg McMuffin though.
>>543354707>implying they're not flock scanning your licence plate, your face, scanning your credit card, wifi accessing your McApp and last Google search, and using their Reptilian crystals to scan your thoughts for your current favourite menu item and last night's argument with your wife already
>>543362022it wouldn't stop the data centers anyway just make more>>543361992>They need your consent though, apparently, and you echoing the idea is just that.they certainly didn't need mine for anything they're doing here, I talk about the ben gurion canal too, is spreading information inherently consent?>nope>>543362053>it's not a phase it's a 10 pcok so without wasting any time is it "so bad it's good" or just plain bad
>>543362066it may just have been the ones local to me at the time I still bothered but they were pretty bad, food wasn't but the conditions were, one I worked at was one of the grodiest ff places I had, can't eat there anymore
>>543361141You are a dumb nigger holy shit how did you get internet access
>>543354617Big Mac and medium fries is under 1000 calories but barely. Youre talking about an entire meal with a soda. Every fat person I know who quit drinking soda alone lost ridiculous amounts of weight. Like went from 300lbs to 200 or below. The fat epidemic in the u.s is largely caused by sugary drinks. Sugar tea. Iced coffee. Soda. Etc.
>>543362231>knew it was 1pbtid before I even lookedwell howdy stranger, why are you so upset at text on a screen
>>543353978Oy GEVALT!! That’s antiseptic!!
>>543362170The whole album is great.
>>543354171>I watched a movie about netflix so I spam this low take
>>543354790back in my days at the univ circa 2005-2008 a cheeseborgor used to be 0.9€.I could buy 5 of those and get half full for 4.50€.Now it's 4€/p, and the mcdolan near me is literally empty bcuz nobody can afford this shit.
>>54335397885% markup
I haven't eaten in Mc Dicks for almost three years now.I'll rather just go to a restaurant and eat an actual meal for that kind of money.
>>543362170>is spreading information inherently consent?Man idk maybe I've swallowed the consent as propaganda line. You're right, just spew forth the truth. It always works out great at family weddings.
>>543359777checked. What is that painting called and/or who painted it? Thank you.
stop being anti-semitic. people need to pay the McDonalds corporation what they're worth.
>>543354461>Expand their food offeringsTypically more menu items is bad for restaurants.But that's exactly why McD is pushing ReFreshers/energizers so hard right nowIt's the cheapest thing they could possibly try and sell, and they do it for the cost of a soft drink.Basically they saw the popularity of drive through coffee chains and decided "why not here" hoping it'd drive sales of their regular inventory up too.I know you've heard of the pizza index for the pentagon.McDonald has the "spicy nugget index".Whenever McDonalds is about to show a trash quarterly earnings, they release spicy nuggets right beforehand to drive earnings up.They've only run them nationally 3 times, right after COVID lockdowns, a couple years ago before ReFreshers, and last month. Each time for about a week.
>>543359777That too.It's why they had to shrink the products on top of raising prices beyond reason.
>>543360289Literally nobody would do it if your anecdote was accurate, you spoke to an individual who was exceptionally bad at operating his personal money printer
>>543362291I'll have to stick it on later when I open the desktop up>>543362532is it actually a fetish to want to say the worst thing imaginable for the timing all the time, if your dick isn't hard>>543362731welcome frenought to be fun to count the 1pbtids constantly revisiting that exchange
>>543353978Because the stock market requires publically traded companies to not just make lots of profit to be doing well, they are required to make more profit than last year every single year forever or they are failing.Genuinely ban the stock market.
>>543362657McDonalds locations in the U.S get their beef from american farmers. The Ukraine war may have upset inventory in europe but that doesn't explain what happened to the u.s. prices aside from global energy costs or other resources that effect trade in the u.s.
>>543353978When you are the largest restaurant on the planet, you are used to getting things done your way.
>>543353978A Big Mac with fries and a Coke for $8 USD?Doesn't seem too much.But $3 or even $4 just for a soda is crazy.Do I misunderstand something?
>>543363080They have their own supplier of meat. Not all of it is from cows.
>>543363226there's a lot of seeming artificial price inflations going onlike this simulated average price floor resetshit here went up fairly considerably from those crazy ass tariffs, which are gone now, but the prices never noticeably reduced
I wouldn't expect shit like vidya hardware to go back down all that much either; once people get used to paying $8k for a vidya card, they're not giving those profits up and taking stock hits
>>543353978They need a cut-rate source of meat?
>>5433605282008 proved that financial institutions have no real risks anymore, so why not chase growth as much as you can?
>>5433635812008 is what motivated Crypto to become a thing.
>>543354171>McDonalds is actually a real estate moguMcDonalds is complete dogshit food, ever since Obama they did nothing but hire incompetent niggers based on feelings, and those incompetent niggers all demanded 30 dollars a fucking hour, and guess what? They never could cook, the big secret? Niggers can't cook, they literally season dey food with everything and anything to hide this fact. Franks red hot smothered on all things to conceal the bleach or chlorine they used to clean dey chickens and shit does not a good cook make.This is 1000% their own fault, it almost seems intentionally done. You hire incompetent niggers as cooks and what exactly did they fucking expect to happen? All their food now tastes like it's been wiped through some crusty niggers sweaty ass.It's time to say good bye to McDonalds.
>>543363303No they don't. They dont own farms and don't buy direct from farmers.
>>543363870https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-supports-americas-ranchers/#:~:text=DEFENDING%20AND%20STRENGTHENING%20OUR%20NATION%E2%80%99S%20VITAL%20RANCHING%20INDUSTRY%3A,effort%20to%20protect%20and%20fully%20support%20America%E2%80%99s%20ranchers.
>>543354832Cunt, how about you get off your fatass and go there to eat instead of getting Rajesh to Uber eats it to you at double the cost
>>543361964Subway is the same way. Alot of them around here have been bought by Pajeets. They just keep raising prices and traffic keeps thinning out. They actually get mad when corporate sends out those coupon sheets that bring prices back down to almost tolerable levels. But it brings in traffic, which the Pajeets don't understand is necessary. Like they don't understand, if the prices were cut in half, they'd have ten times the sales, and actually make more money/profit in aggregate. But Pajeets are as stupid as any Jew. They'll keep accelerating that downward spiral of higher prices and fewer customers and higher prices and fewer customers until the business collapses and then wonder what happened.
>>543354461That garbage is NOT food, you idiot. Hurr durr, I have many US government goy tokens, so my opinion matters. Shut up.
>>543363414Every gpu that isn't a 5090/5080 is affordable (kinda). I got my 9070xt for under $700 q1 this year. >inb4 muh ray/path tracingDon't care. Even a 5090 isn't running games at 60fps with that shit at native resolutions and upscaling looks awful. Id rather just play games at native resolutions with high frame rates without gaytracing. If I want to do gen a.i id cut my dick off and join a company(cult) like everyone else that uses it. How the fuck did my ip get banned in the last 30 minutes posting ITT alone? Fuck jannies. What the fuck did I post that was so offensive? Who's the faggot reporting anons? Im going to go do something productive. Fuck this shithole.
>>543364333And my triple threes confirm you are indeed, a fucking moron. Kek.
>>543364174>if they dropped prices in half they would increase sales 10x. Then they would need 10x the inventory which would cause the price of their inventory to go up proportionally with demand. Its an exponential curve, not a linear one.
For me I pirate the Big Mac TM.I purchase the big mac sauce off of ebay and then I buy buns and some thin beef patties and season them. Then I added lettuce and pickles.I know it feels wrong to pirate food but I can't afford to pay that much for a Big Mac TM.
>>543354094Not sure if bait or just stupid. Dividends are literally defined as a distribution of profits to owners.
>>543360890They can't because of their distribution contract and yes, owning the land prevents any franchisee from giving them the finger. Coke does this too and has lost a lot of small restaurants who will put anything on their fountain. I prefer coke, but if others want Pepsi, so what.
>>543364174A coupon would imply that the customer is taking advantage of them which is disastrous to their izzat.
>>543363414We’ll see, NVIDIAs living high on the hog while AI is booming, but no one is making any real profit there. VR and metaverses were slated to be the next thing just a while ago and everyone is trying very hard to forget that entire fiasco. Organic demand for these products is very low, especially if you factor in what the actual price would be if these companies weren’t burning cash to growthmaxx.
>>543363414The combos were dirt cheap last month. New top tier cpu and board or ram for $800. I bought a gpu, gtx4060, for free, because I needed a larger ssd a few months ago. The ssd was yes, overinflated, but the $400 gpu was free.
See link https://ebay.io/m/442tEK
>>543353978Browns ruined America. The American economy was fine 30 years ago when America was 80% White.
>>543364344>>543364762Took me three months to sell my perfectly good condition 2060 when I upgraded for $150. Yeah, it's older, but seemed like a fair price given the other listings.
>>543354171>they're a real estate mogul that sells burgersIt's not too far from the truth. Homeowners are experiencing the difficulty of paying property tax on their homes, which they need to work and pay for. Buying a bunch of land makes a lot more sense when you've got a business that you can put on the land to produce a profit and take care of all the expenses. In the grand scheme they're making tons of money on the land value going up plus whatever net profits were made from the business.
>>543360288>>543360343>>543360499>>543360521Grim. I'm sorry muttbros
>>543364879Then even when you're big enough only locally, that wealth corrupts courts to rule in your favor. >I can't rule against the county tax baseFaggots, all the way down
>>543364344Imagine getting a 5090 thinking it's the best card only to find that a 9070XT gets higher fps when there's no CPU bottleneck.Lmao.I've said it before and people just don't wanna hear it: Nvidia consumer GPUs are the server SKU's that didn't make the cut and get chopped down.
>>543353978is it really that hard to walk back the 300% price increase over the last 2 years JUST A LITTLE?
>>543364174>They just keep raising prices and traffic keeps thinning out.Business 101 in every college in America must be teaching children to sell their companies to foreigners. There can be no other explanations as to how nearly all major franchises were sold off to some foreigner and all those foreigners adopted the same self destructive agendas almost immediately afterwards.When you want your business to completely fail, you would give it to a brown foreigner who then goes on to hire nothing but browns and other "minorities" as part of their collective agendas set fourth by their cult like organizations that the rabble could never truly have a say in. They might try to salvage it with AI and mass scale social control methods, and even though I say all of this I don't care about it. McDonalds is disgusting food, it was before they bought it but at least the food was cooked properly by trusted cooks that at least understood the concept of preparing a meal for someone. in short words, you shouldn't eat meat prepared by someone filled with ill intent or malice. For a company hiring endless waves of people who see it all as a struggle, it doesn't bode well, and now they would look stupid if they started hiring more white people to make it right. So, it's going to be a PR nightmare or voodoo plague burgers in decade.
>>543353978The McDonalds in my area is completely unserviceable now - the food quality is just laughable, we're talking glopped mayo on half the burger, one single sad piece of lettuce, non melted cheese. Go during lunchtime and they make you pull over and wait 12 mins because they don't understand that lunchtime gets busy, cold ass fired and shit. Literally everything human hands touched lowerd the food quality to the point where im not interested in paying for, or eating itThey keep hiring third worlders and they literally do not give a flying fuck about the quality of food they output - if you bitch and bring it back in like what the actual fuck is this - they just make you a new even shittier burgerYou walk in and they're all screaming in Filipino at eachother and it's just, well, probably not unlike back in the homeland id imagineAnyways, the food isn't even worth money anymore let alone $17 worth. McDonalds has two options - fire everyone and literally replace the entire chain with AI or simply go broke. That's it. Id say maybe stop allow franchisees to exercise open nepotism and hiring people who dont actually speak English, but that's never going to happen
>>543365067I think it’s like >>543355271 said, they view it as programming their customers. They’re trying to anchor a higher price point and would rather take a loss for a while than admit defeat and compete on price. They think that their brand is strong enough that people will show up anyway. It’s a dumb strategy because they’re in a very competitive market and I don’t see people coming back easily after the way the company has been changing for a while.
>>543365519>Business 101 in every college in America must be teaching children to sell their companies to foreigners.I noticed that too. I've seen alot of iconic Americna brands sold to foreigners. It seemed to slow down for awhile after the 90s (when alot of manufacturing places shuttered - Zenith (TVs), Hoover (vacuums), etc) but the last few years has picked up again. Fairly recently US Steel sold to the Japanese, Kelloggs (cereal) sold to Italians I think. I work, nominally, around tech and the strategy _there_ seems to be to fill US leadership roles with Indians that then send all of the jobs to India. IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, you name it, a Pajeet at the helm means jobs going to Hindustan. Our entire country is being hollowed out.
>>543353978No one is going to tell you this I guess but those prices are fine; their problem is the their quality sucks ass for the aforementioned prices.
>>543365519It's not so much sell to foreigners, but business school for decades has taught 'get big enough to attract selling to someone bigger to cash out or start other ventures'. The problem is foreigners can own land here.
>>543366286The third option would be to accept that their growth period is over, accept that your margins are oversized and you need to cut prices, fix product quality issues in every step of the chain and raise wages so you can hire better staff. They won’t do any of that though.
>>543354461>mcd is fucked unless they expand their offerings of food choicesI would argue the opposite. They should stick to the original plan of a limited menu served quickly and cheaply. If going to McDonald's takes as long and costs as much as going to a pub or restaurant, McDonald's has lost its purpose.
>>543366286>Go during lunchtime and they make you pull over and wait 12 mins because they don't understand that lunchtime gets busyevery job that hires nonwhites eventually tries to run on a skeleton crew of them because idiot brownoids are the perfect slaves and never speak up about that shit. if they can't keep up they'll be fired and another brown person sure as fuck will try to keep up because deferential behaviour is so ingrained. any place that had 3 white teens working 15 years ago runs off 1 indian adult male now. canadian ecenomy is fine though! especially YOUR province in particular! according to the bullshit ads across various media
>>543360096oh my fucking god so the executives prioritise stock price over actual fundamentals/cash because shareholders are the ones who decide their bonus and the stock market is so massively inflated beyond paper values?Utter clown world. I knew the market was irrational but i didn't think it would backflow and contaminate business. Sounds like the western system is inherently flawed and will succumb like the USSR did then. Maybe capitalism with a more restrained stock market could work
>>543366451>Our entire country is being hollowed out.the jews in charge know the collapse is inevitable. if they can't outright sell the liability to others, they just install a bunch of indian executives. loot the coffers AND avoid responsibility for what's next.
>>543366768>i didn't think it would backflow and contaminate business...why?
>>543366768also we don't have capitalism. businesses make awful decisions and tax dollars are used to shield them from the consequences. governments actively restrict certain industries from ever seeing competition. that is not capitalism.
>>543366377Could also be part of the greater private equity trend to buy the largest company in a sector (directly or just shares) and "luxurise" it.The same happened with bowling.What's best as a family night out has been turned into a poorly lit night club with shit music, TV above the bowling alleys, $40 beer buckets (5 bottles), and $20 nacho trays without meat that barely feed 2 men.That bowlero company has over 30% of the total bowling market revenue, but the product is total garbage.It gained this percentage because the market collapsed under their expansion pressures. They bought as many locations as possible, monopolised bowling in the local areas, "luxurised" it, and put people off of bowling altogether.The market is 10% of what it was in the 1980s. The drop didn't pick up speed until that company showed up to rape everyone.The Jewish CEO brags about it like it's a huge achievement. For jews, destroying good things is an achievement indeed.That's just one example.McDonald's is another. The investors want their fucking money and McD will rake it in no matter the cost.The result is shit styling in the restaurants, shit products, shit quantity when you do buy, and shit pricing.The core business is destroyed.
>>543366768The stock market dictates that profit isnt good enough, it has to be more profit than last year or shareholders sell.The stock market should be banned.All companies should be privately owned, and not publically traded.
>>543366741>Timmy trying to spin his peoples' laziness and lack of discipline as good things and immigrants' work ethic and discipline as character flaws.Sad.
>>543354461STEVE? I KNEW YOU POSTED HERE
>>543367062letting the quality of everything dip to save a buck is 'work ethic'? okay, paco.
>>543366768Henry Ford vs. Dodge Brothers, 1919 iirc.A CEO's first priority is to fulfill shareholder interests.The case was brought before court by the Dodge brothers because Ford had a massive windfall and nothing to sensibly invest it in, so Henry Ford wanted to pay the surplus to all the factory workers as a one-time "good job" bonus.The Dodge brothers wanted to keep the money for investors only.They won.Henry then left and restarted his company without them.Dodge became GM and a joke, and Ford became the Ford boomers grew up idolising.It set a precedent for every other publicly traded company however.If you don't do what the shareholders demand, they can sue to have to replaced with a puppet who does do as told.Among other reasons, this is why Valve is a private company and will never be publicly traded for as long as Gabe is in charge.God damned guaranteed it'll go public if he dies and then Valve will enshittify just like every other publicly traded company.I fucking hate the stock market. Humans can't be trusted with it. It should be outlawed and everyone who owns shares should be shot.
>>543367046well yeah that would be aneven better addition to the system>>543367060im alright with that, because under that model the company is still striving to increase revenue, which makes for a somewhat healthy countrywhat im postulating is that the company is instead catering to speculators who pay no mind to fundamentals
>>543354171>I watched The Founder or saw a random reel that said McDonalds is in the real estate business I am the only one that saw this by the way and will act like this is information no one else knows
>>543367325i understand that, but it seems that the shareholders here don't even care about actual cash but rather sheer palm-reading, tarot-dealing speculationthe former yields a country that damages its populace and environment for industrythe latter yields a country that can't even keep up technology/competency wise
>>543353978McDonalds should switch from beef everything to chicken/egg everything and quit their caterwalling.
>>543354905Calories wouldn't be the measure dumb fag.Satiety and enjoyment. Would you rather eat 100 cal of ribeye or rice cake lol.
>>543364603I'm retarded, just extremely rich. Try talking to an AI or google, they could help you like they helped me.
>>543359922Nothing ever happens, but this might.
>>543367640That's because they base their investments on profit forecasts.It's profitmaxxing, sheer industrialised greed in a gambling house.The stock market doesn't have the dark atmosphere of a casino but it has the flashy screens, the lights, the bells and alarms, everything.
>>543354461>A larger menu is betterThis is often wrong
>>543360528Dividends are taxed too high. I'm like middle class my marginal tax rate 20 to 30%. The wealthy pay like 40 to 50%. If you are wealthy you don't want dividend because fedboi gets too much. Long term capital gains is like 20%
For me, it's the McChicken. The worst fast food sandwich. One of our regulars even asks for extra McChicken sauce packets and we have to give it to him because he’s here so much.One time he asked for McChicken sauce packets and I dumped three sauces on to his tray. As I turned my back to go back to work, he said, "Wow, three for free!", and I gave him my best fake smile and laugh and said in a slightly mocking tone, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".It became a bit of a joke with my co-workers. Now we always greet him with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give him three packets. It's such a shitty and depressing atmosphere at this McDonalds restaurant. 3-for-free is so annoying. He comes here at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream like an asshole, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when we’re in a rush and he wants his diabetes slop food. The fatass even dips his fries in McChicken sauce, it's disgusting! What a terrible restaurant.
>>543367431I disagree, the stock market justifies enshittification.I think the obsession with infinite gdp growth is a net negative for society.
>>543367496OK THEN EVERY FAGGOT IN THIS THREAD THINKING $MCD IS A DEAD STOCK QUESTION WHY THE FUCK HAS THIS NOT SHOWN UP IN THE INCOME STATMENT??????????????????????????????????????? WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW THIS DEAD COMPANY IS ACTUALLY DEAD AND DONT MUH GLP-1'S ME THAT WOULD ONLY KNOCK OUT 400 MILLION IN ANNUNAL REVENUE SO FUCK ALL FUCK YOU TECH BRAINED STOCK BROS ARE MAKING ME GO MAD ITS GOING DOWN BECAUSE THE DISCOUNT VALUE IS INCREASING BECAUSE BONDS ARE GETTING RAPED RAPED RAPED!!!!!!
>>543353978Big Mac Index don't allow lowering price willy-nilly, dumbass.https://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental-analysis/ppp-big-mac.asp
>>543368121>the stock market justifies enshittification.WRONG, WE BENEFIT IF THE COMPANY DOES WELL COMPANIES ARE NOT DOING WELL BECAUSE OF INFLATION LOOOK AT THE INPUT GOODS
>>543365519Us gov gives them money to do it... if the us stopped focusing on poor niggers and foreigners and focused on middle class whites this country would see 1950s growth. Jews fucked up and bought the lie that niggers are just as capable as whites. Yet we all understand whitey can't play nigger ball lol.
For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.I even dip my fries in McChicken sauce, it's delicious! What a great restaurant.
>>543366513Nah all companies want growth because that is where investor value is. They need to grow by creating new companies. Buy taco John's or something and take it national. Take a college pizza place and make them compete against the hut.
>>543366513MCD's growth phase has been over since 2009 its CAGR when i did a DCF on it was like 4.26% if i recall correctly for 5y
>>543359122people realized angel reese is an angry for nothing bitch, lmaoEu standards for food can't justify their pricing either. Shit food for shit pricing, rude staff that doesn't care enough to even check the bag, and corporate out of touch retards who won't eat the food they sell; but we're a real estate company (yes for steady asset valuations that prop up the stock, but you're a food based service company for the sales figures retards on robinhood eat at to invest in too)
>>543360528Retard gen x that played the boomer's game came into management
>>543353978they're not using ai genenrated food menus to cut costs
>>543368270Oh sorry I guess im wrong, less product for more money was actually a good thing all along.
>>543367850like i'm saying, profit forecasting isn't the most degenerate shareholders could beI'm wondering if shareholders are steering the company off of vibes.>>543368121yes it justifies enshittification but I'm talking about something worse than thatI'm talking about America as a whole stagnating because companies no longer care about adopting/making new technologies or competently running operations
>>543354461>expand their offerings of food choicesA greasy corporate fuck once told me this: If you shit on the sidewalk, people will go out of their way to avoid that turd. If you smear the turd all over the sidewalk, people will walk through it without a second thought.
>>543362263nigger nigger nigger nigger dumb cocksucking niiiiggeeeeer
>>543370507Chasing infinite gdp growth is also a justification for mass immigration.Its also a justification for the mass use of credit.These things destroy societies.Gdp keeps rising but quality of life keeps falling.
>>543353978>lower prices>>543354037FPBP
>>543354037this. you want to deny corporate adminstrators and board members their god given slave wag- er, hard earned money?!
>>543370815indeedi don't intend to justify or diminish the current state of affairs
>>543354461They had a decent menu in the early 2010's. Good coffee, big wraps that were more than a single chicken strip inside, good chicken sandwiches, multiple good breakfast burritos. But they cut all that stuff and scaled down to just the dirt cheap shit. Then they started to raise prices on it.I wonder if they'd be doing fine right now had they kept the good stuff, raised prices accordingly, and turned into more high end fast food.Chic-fil-A has always been more expensive and they had a huge comeback in the 2010s because people wanted fast food that actually tasted good.
>>543353978The McDonald's brothers send their regards
>>543354171>>543354346>>543368171NOOOOOOOO NOT THE JEWISH GOYSLOP ECONOMY OY VEY GEVALT
>>543353978>Why can't McDonald's just lower pricesCause there are still enough people willing to pay 20$ for a meal you can make at home for 3-5$.They would be dumb to lower the price for every 2 poorfags they lose the 1 they retain covers the loss
>>543363864Thank you.
>>543354171Trite
>>543353978>2 snack wrap>1400 caloriesSNACK?
>>543354062>they barely make any more profit from it than your average wagie doesWhat kind of stupid fucking nigger are you???ALL McGoySlop franchise owners are multi-millionaires.
>>543355271>Mcdonalds should hire all natural food scientist to certify mcdonalds as healthy.Healthy food eats into profits. >https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/video-mcdonald-ceo-reluctantly-nibbling-180000097.htmlIf you don't eat the McGoySlop profits will go down.
>>543367056In America about 50% of our consumer spending is by the top 1% of wealthy people. They’ve given up on catering to a permanent precariat class that is always one Jewish financial crisis away from having nothing to spend.
>>543366833>>543366451jews are lootin' and scootin'they're doing the same thing to america that they did to russia in the 90s
>NOOOOOO I SIMPLY HAVE TO EAT THE EXPENSIVE GARBAGEWhy are americans the only ones like this? What makes them this stupid?
>>543353978I'm convinced they put drugs in fast food. >it tastes like shit>it makes you feel like shit>the purchasing "experience" is horrible>its bad for you>it gives you explosive diarrhea>it is expensive>you swear never again every time you do it>yet you always come back for moreName a normal food that does this to you. You can't. Name a drug that does this. It describes every drug I've ever done. This is drugs.
>>543361964I used to work for Caesar 15 years ago. It cost 87 cents then to make the $5 pizza.
>>543354188If we import a million indians and replace the expensive beef and chicken with cricketburgers we can have a killer Q4
>>543355367> he thinks its about "profit"kek. The bolsheviks starving all those christians was an accident bro it was mismanagement bro a prank bro
>>543353978>not eating conveyor belt food is pushback
>>543359349facts a lot of people grabbing food on their lunch break is a real thing. but the issue is the food is so fucking bad for you that the people who eat mcdonalds get head aches at work, get fired, go on full time disability. i've never known a regular mcdonalds customer who has been healthy. compare that to mexican cousine. those fuckers eat high protein high vegitable diets and the food is fresh and mostly organic or at least it's not been sprayed a million times with every poision known to man. that fuels them to go get ontop of roof's work their ass off for 10 hours straight and do a bunch of manual labor. workers who eat mcdonalds don't tend to be gainfully employed very long. it's usually stay at home moms on light duty with kids that take their kids through mcdonalds. real workers eat carneassada steak , guac, and chase it down with a modello.tldr jobs aren't dying. people who eat McDonald regularly are just so unhealthy they can't maintain a job. the lack of nutrition has them physically weak. a mcdonald's body just isn't competitive in the overall marketplace. it doesn't fuel muscles, it doesn't fuel brain, it doesn't fuel heart health, or bones. it just makes you tired and weak and lazy, and stupid. edit. many jobs are dying and switching to remote, but food deliveries are massively up which compensates for that.
>>543368961based oldfag McChicken enjoyer.Unfortunately these days if I ask for 1 mcChicken sauce packet the jeeta store manager tells me I'll have to be charged for it. So now when I go thru the drive-thru I will not mention anything about McChicken sauce packets until I'm at the final window and they've already handed over everything and i'll act like I forgot to ask for mcChicken sauce and ask for it. The wagie at the window is already worried about other orders and doesn't care, so will give them for free without hesitation.I've spent probably over $10,000 on mcdonalds since 2010 so I'm going to get my free mcChicken sauce packet those cheap fucks.
>>543376343shit jews tell themselves when their plan of being even more rich backfires. we were just doing it to hurt the goyum.... no... jews always do it for the money first and figure out everything else around that second. they own all the money; but they want more of it. often times it's something as ill thought out as price gauging the shit out of everyone and testing if the economy can sustain an unreasonable price. only for it to blow up in their face, and they become reliant on the honest goyum to create another sincere business that they can buy out in order to start price gauging a new business venture. selling a business to the black rock jews is basically just a very slow process of slaughtering the business for profit, degrading quality and price value until the goyum catch wise and it's on to the next scheme. the natural equilbrium that exists in nature doesn't apply. it's always more, more more. until the business goes tits up like Cable tv went tits up. because at the end of the day, a sustainable business requires price honesty, constant innovation which requires smart employee's that aren't cheap, and it requires high quality at low price. the margins are thin if you're doing it right. but our system is so fat and lazy it doesn't want thin margins. it wants fat margins that feel like exploitation. because exploitation is exciting and fun. it gets the sadistic juices going. jerking off thinking about how many people you're fucking over with your bullshit. that's why jewish instutitions tend to not last very long. it's come in, smash, grab, cash out, rinse repeat. and how can you prove you have god's favor if you're just toiling just like the rest of everyone else/? but there is honesty and integrity in toiling there's staying power, and that staying power brings long term respect .. build somethign that lasts that serves the community and you obtain respect. which is the hardest currency to obtain
>>543353978>Why can't McDonald's just lower prices Dodge vs Ford Corporate entities stopped having to be a benefit to the communities they reside in, and their sole priority is maximizing shareholder value.Fucking jews.
>>543376948Wait is that dodge emblem real? I see why ford wrote his book kek
food prices never ever go downenter hyperinflation
>>543360894You type like a faggot and your opinions are retardedCongratulations nigger, everyone hates you
>>543354461Sample size of 1Millionaires have air fryers
>>543377975No, millionaires use convection ovens unless they are retarded.You do realize air fryers are just minutarized convection ovens, right?The only use for an air fryer is if you're a student and live in a corridor or if you're a third worlder who can't get a real oven.
>>543378245Are you a millionaire with a convection oven?
>>543353978Now 7 years since my last visit to McDI make my own fucking burger that tastes much better and is warm, for a quarter of the slop
>>543375706There are a lot of areas where the only place you can get food at all are fast food joints. There won't be any grocery stores within an hour's drive or some shit.
>>543378245air fryers are cleaner and faster than a convection oven, clearly you've never owned one because you're a poorfag eurocuck that can't even afford central cooling / heating
>>543353978Cause they want record profit!
>>543354403Right. So prices are what they have to be for franchise owners to turn a profit. Lowering prices would just hurt the people operating the restaurants.
>>543353978Because Gates and others actively wipe and monopolize the food supply making the price go up, Orange shabbos cattle doing Israels bidding, making fuel prices go up, wagies are hard to find and every retard nowadays orders through middlemen to have their slop delivered by a brownoid for 20-30% cuts... (Wolt, Doordash)>>543364603... all while making the line go up: he meant that lowering food prices would mean the holders wouldn't be happy, which is true.
>>543354062You’re jewish
>>543379798>Because Gates and others actively wipe and monopolize the food supply making the price go upThat's interesting, but why should I believe you?
>>543359848>>543354832>>543359711They will just give you a regular burger no matter what you order. They’re staffed exclusively by migrants or groids in every state. Not sure if its a deal with the gov or what.
>>543354062This is true as well, their main capital is properties.Also he was an actual kike afaik, who bought the rights from the actual McDonalds.>>543379874They own shitton of farmland in US, that is a basic fact.Also there were oddly a lot of animal related illnesses, building catching on fire and so on lately:>be small-middle farm>"Oyy vey goyim, bird flu currentyear edition just suddenly and unexpectedly dropped on your farm! (through a carcass by our drone, ehhehehe)">kills 2% of your chicken>remaining 98% you are required to kill yourself>no way to cover costs now, go bankrupt>Gates/Top 5 company buys the remains>competition goes down, price go up>rinse and repeat
>>543379721because the franchise itself charges too much to the franchise ownerseveryone wants to get rich, you, the consumer either pay what you're told because they determined how much you can afford to pay, not what their product is actually worth.you will pay what the system can support and no less. no fucking hamburger is worth 8 dollars, 5 dollar fries, 2 dollar sodas.
When I was still going to university I almost lived exclusively off of mcdonalds. The mc doubles were like 2€ each, big macs were like 4,20 or something. They also frequently had coupons for 2 big macs for the price of one. Now you pay 6.40 for a big mac and they no longer have 2 for the price of 1 coupons. It's been like 5 years, I don't know what the fuck happened.
>>543353978Why can't you just stop eating goyslop you pathetic subhuman
>>543380350>They own shitton of farmland in US, that is a basic fact.How much? Why are you making so many vague claims instead of anything specific, or posting evidence for any of it? Do you just feel entitled to being believed?
>>543380584Guess who pays those imported brownoids delivering you slop? You!Even if you eat in the restaurant, part of it is factored into the price, and thats only one aspect>>543380926>outlining basic thought process on a verifiable tendency leading to monopolies and increase of meat prices>hurr-durr provide me evidence on the actual conspiracy! PUT THAT SPOON IN MY MOUTH SAAAR!!!Next time use your stinky poop covered hands and don't waste my time: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-owns-275-000-150012766.html
>>543360096>away from kid-first marketingGenius move since birth rates are plummeting.
>>543381373>>outlining basic thought process on a verifiable tendency leading to monopolies and increase of meat pricesThat isn't what you did, though. >>hurr-durr provide me evidence on the actual conspiracy! PUT THAT SPOON IN MY MOUTH SAAAR!!!That isn't what I said though.Why are you even tagging my posts if you just want to have a conversation with yourself?
>>543353978>>543354062Most McDonald's franchisees are real estate holding companies that sometimes make cheeseburgers on the side. Have you ever seen a McDonald's on a piece of land that didn't have enormous value?
>>543354171you get it. That's why they rent prime location. Not only making the food seem edible to cattle, but they can easily rent this out to some companies once the people discover the Bugers are just recycled trash (wich they probably charge for). They beat the game. No wonder Warren Buffet likes the stock.
>>543353978I haven't bought McDonald's since pre-2020.I don't miss it.
>>543382971Even the Big Mac Sauce?
Taco Bell box deals are the best goyslop in the states atm change my mind>if you have money get this
>>543383178I've made homemade Big Macs better than the slop you can get there.
>lol
>>543354171And when restaurants go under the remts stop being paid and they still have to pay taxes on the land
